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Comments on: Microsoft resorts to vomit to market IE 8

In a new series of online ads for its Internet Explorer 8 browser, created by the team behind the Mojave Experiment, Microsoft goes beyond the pale. In fact, a bucket is required.

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by LaTene_Man July 1, 2009 2:43 PM PDT: Dumb, pure stupidity. Sophomoric humour that we've come to expect from Microsoft ads. Come on guys, you can do better than this. Or at least I thought you could. Our "culture" is truly in its death throws evidently. What a sad commentary.; Like this Reply to this comment


by inter_loper July 1, 2009 2:55 PM PDT: You stay classy, Microsoft!; Like this Reply to this comment

by protagonistic July 1, 2009 2:57 PM PDT

I have always felt that MS should ask for its money back from the previous ad agency, but they should ask for their money back and for damages as well this time. This is one ad I won't care to ever see again. Can MS really be this desperate? I never thought that even MS could have standards this low.

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by FF2009 July 2, 2009 1:07 PM PDT: I'll be desperate too when I see my Browser shares going down in a toilet..in fact I'll have an heart attack when I see Firefox 3.5 almost 10 Mill downloads in 2 days.; Like this


by joshdeboer July 1, 2009 3:26 PM PDT: What?; Like this Reply to this comment


by justinf79 July 1, 2009 3:48 PM PDT: This was rather disgusting. Of course, using windows makes me puke sometimes too...; Like this Reply to this comment


by wfelter2000 July 1, 2009 5:11 PM PDT: Why can't I view the video?
It says it's a private video.; Like this Reply to this comment


by patrick_i July 1, 2009 5:49 PM PDT: Well a decade or so ago Apple couldn't market it's way out of a paper bag.........; Like this Reply to this comment


by ssalava July 1, 2009 7:42 PM PDT: Video can now be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB9fhjnJcB0; Like this Reply to this comment


by Gaurav42 July 2, 2009 4:33 AM PDT: i think she puked cos she realised that her husband might be about to install one of the buggiest, slowest, hole ridden security failure browsers out there. i wouldnt touch IE with a 10 foot pole. i use FF or Safari.

FYI safari has had this feature for ages, and it was even called the same thing; Like this Reply to this comment


by Tête July 2, 2009 5:48 AM PDT: OMG ***?

This is an ad for the 2G1C video!; Like this Reply to this comment


by Fire Balls July 2, 2009 6:25 AM PDT: The Video has been pulled.. :( I laughed so hard when I saw it. Very funny!! Oh well.; Like this Reply to this comment


by cyclonica1980 July 2, 2009 6:52 AM PDT: I will stick to Chrome. IE8 is too slow.; Like this Reply to this comment


by jafarm66 July 2, 2009 7:08 AM PDT: ROFLMAO this is so funny... An original ad idea for those with sick senses of humor!! I LOVE IT. If I weren't already using IE 8 I'd give it a try!; Like this Reply to this comment


by setjeff15081947 July 2, 2009 8:40 AM PDT: Arrogant Microsoft® is at it again; we must have, and download, IE-8. They?re even embedding the download and installation in their ?Most Important? updates which I automatically receive but, as yet, don?t have to download and install. I?m sure this is merely an oversight on the part of the pompous-blowhards, and they will correct this defect that still allows me to make a decision. Microsoft? Eat My Shorts ? after I?ve *******************.; Like this Reply to this comment


by mlinder69 July 2, 2009 10:47 AM PDT: The best part is someone was dumb enough to PAY to have this vomit ad made! Actually using IE 7 or IE 8 makes me want to get sick, they both suck!; Like this Reply to this comment


by FF2009 July 2, 2009 1:10 PM PDT: I'll be desperate too when I see my Browser shares going down in a toilet..in fact I'll have an heart attack when I see Firefox 3.5 almost 10 Mill downloads in 2 days.; Like this Reply to this comment


by bblackmoor July 2, 2009 3:07 PM PDT: So... using Windows makes you puke? Pretty funny, but I hate to think what sort of convulsions using a Mac would cause. A coma, probably, since the Mac interface is a lobotomized Windows gui. I would say something about Linux, but I can't think of anything funny. Having someone look at the laptop and just go on about their business without Windows' viruses and Mac's crippled user interface is not very entertaining.; Like this Reply to this comment


by Kat-A July 2, 2009 9:19 PM PDT: Well, when you make a sickening product I guess you have to make lousy advertisements (remember the Seinfeld debacle?) Just another drop in the bucket in bad taste for Microsoft!; Like this Reply to this comment


by Kostagh July 2, 2009 11:39 PM PDT: Boy... if it isn't the stupidest, lousiest, crappiest (does this word really exist?! I don't know... it should ... for the sake of this advert)... commercial EVER!!!!
So that's why M$ pieces of... software... are sooo ... hmmm... overpriced... They had to pay the actors EXTRA CASH to act in such a piece of ... software...; Like this Reply to this comment


by Kostagh July 2, 2009 11:42 PM PDT: Yeah like... what a piece of... software... She probably saw IE8 running on Vista and that's why she got sick... I would too... And I repeat... It's a piece of ... software...; Like this Reply to this comment

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