Los Angeles: In its effort to make people switch to Microsoft Edge, Microsoft will now pay you to use the browser, which according to the company can last longer than its rivals like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera.

Microsoft's Edge browser can offer 36-53 per cent more battery life while doing daily tasks, including watching videos on YouTube, browsing internet or checking in with friends on social networks.

Microsoft Rewards, announced earlier this week, which is a rebranding of Bing Rewards and for now only available in the US, offers points for using Edge and Bing, along with shopping at the Microsoft store.

In order to earn points in its revamped rewards programme, you have to make Bing, a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft, as your default search engine.

You can trade in points for vouchers or credits to places like Amazon, Starbucks, Skype and the ad-free version of Outlook.com.