Comments on: Microsoft chucks vomit ad

The rather colorful ad--in which a wife pukes after seeing what her husband has been viewing online--has been removed from the Microsoft IE 8 "Browse Better'' campaign.

[play7]

If the vedio was taken off THEN TAKE THIS PIECE DOWN AS WELL! NO COMMEN SENCE CNET!!!!!! TACKY AND WORTHLESS WRITERS!!!!!!!!!! why do you continue to put pieces like this online? because you want people to keep loging in and repling to gain more readership? Please please if things on cnet have been bad over then last 4 years. This reachs lows of lows!

[nashville2]

This is funny?

[nashville2]

Remember "Windows 95 = Mac 84?"

Now we have "IE '09 = Safari '05."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_mode

[guest86]

LOL LOL!!! Microsoft story is very funny and silly! Microsoft said Internet Explorer 8 is fish and old taco. IE 8 is stinks. Love to hear from Microsoft for good time! Mozilla teams laughing on Microsoft. Ads are sucks.

LOL at woman on video get sick from computer screen then make man sick. It is virus in your body. Laughing!!! Good video! Keep thumb up!

[stopaskingme]

Hmmm.... I get a similar reaction each time I wake Vista up. Somehow a spin to this ad comes to mind that would go like ... "Install Linux (or buy Mac) and never again be surprised by a frozen network connection window or a thrashing - for no apparent reason - hard drive ."

[kepners]

*** - weird advert....

www.epictorrents.com

[camp88]

The ad makes sense to me.

I get the OMGIGP feeling every time I've used IE.

In fact, they can change the acronym to IE:OMGIGP

[AA-12]

hairy what ??

[invinovomitas]

Hairy vagina butt-hole and *****.com

[Bdig85]

I admit that it was a little gross, but it was also funny. I think they should have stuck by their ad. It wouldn't have made me switch to IE 8 though.

[dvonroeder]

One of the goals of an advertisement is to capture the viewers attention so that they remember something such as a product, an even, or a company.
After watching this ad, the take away for the Microsoft ad had multiple pictures of a woman vomiting on her husband.
It doesn't change my impression of Microsoft products nor does it change my habits as a user. It does, however, leave me with the impression that there are some very strange people in Microsoft's marketing department.
Call me I'm old fashioned but the only fluid I want to see in my lady's mouth in the morning is?milk.

[reviewerHL]

The commercial was basically a '1-time laugh' anyway and even though I'm a Dean Cain fan, this just shows how much Microsoft seriously doesn't get it. Comic mistiming as the wife saw his porn history 1 second after he leaves the laptop. Of course you should get IE8 to get the overdue privacy feature.. but since he didn't have that - it begs the question what browser was he using? Probably IE6 if he's idiotic enough to go to hairy______.com.

It's bad enough Microsoft resorts to a 'puke-based campaign' but why advertise a feature that's so common and completely not innovated on in IE8. For example google chrome has a full incognito mode so you can visit hairywhatever.com with full tab support and simultaneously have a window for regular browsing using a light UI. On top of that, IE8 is still not fully standards compliant - as a web designer, I'm shocked that stuff that works perfectly for Firefox2 is not even properly interpreted yet.

With products( and campaigns) such as Vista, Microsoft Zune(read an article saying Bill Gates banned his kids from ipods), IE, 'BING' their new search engine/service that really just directs you to ads and poor taste all around, Microsoft should question how in-touch it is with any user base - considering how much and how badly they've missed the mark of late, it's scary to project that forward. Windows 7 better be downright amazing otherwise the only direction for Microsoft is down.