This is a bold if belated move for Microsoft, which relies heavily on Office revenues and profits to support its money-burning online business.
And yes, perhaps, his Facebook followers made up the majority who sentenced the Koran to burning in an online poll.
It's somewhat ironic then that this piece came out only two days after a San Francisco Chronicle article titled: "Social sites becoming too much of a good thing: Many young folks burning out on online sharing".
He can be seen in videos online, burning his passport, promising to destroy Canada and the US, and claiming more western prisoners will be beheaded in the name of Islam".
Citizens are marching, acting online, and burning up phone lines.
But "it's not going to offset people taking music" through illicit file-sharing online or burning CD's for friends, he said.
The Windows XP Task Pane that appears when the My Pictures folder is opened also lists several options for your photos, like ordering prints online or burning them to a CD.
But if it looks like a reputation-scorching brush fire is burning out of control online, he said, it can be wise to hire someone with experience handling a digital fire hose.
If you're clued into the ever-growing Bitcoin hype and have some of that (online) dollah burning a hole in your (digital) pocket, prepare to get excited now you can actually spend them, in real life.
A video of the elected Renfrewshire Council members burning the document was posted online in December, but later removed.
Videos posted online showed a burning hotel in the city of Mahabad, a mid-sized mostly Kurdish city in northwest Iran.
