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Microsoft Gets Rid of Vomit Ad; Stomachs Everywhere are Relieved

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Microsoft apparently has had second thoughts about associating vomit with Internet Explorer 8. As part of a new ad campaign designed to push IE8 onto the masses, one of the four new ads showed a woman barfing all over her husband and the floor after borrowing her hubby's laptop and seeing whatever site he had been viewing, a site so horrendous as to cause her to lose her entire breakfast, and then some. Maybe he was watching Failure to Launch.

The video, which garnered a ton of online media attention, has since been pulled from the IE8videos channel on YouTube, as well as from BrowsefortheBetter.com, a site that is part of the ad campaign. In its place is a tag that simply reads "coming soon."

"We make a point of listening to our customers," a Microsoft representative told CNet. "We created the OMGIGP video as a tongue-in-cheek look at the InPrivate Browsing features of Internet Explorer 8, using the same irreverent humor that our customers told us they liked about other components of the Internet Explorer 8 marketing campaing. While much of the feedback to this particular piece of creative was positive, some of our customers found it offensive, so we have removed it."

Or maybe it just hit too close to home for some. Either way, if you missed it the first time around, you can still catch ad here.

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avatarJust about puked myself laughing. :P

Just watched the video, then the rest of the ads. Pretty good stuff.

 

Can't vouch for the browser, though. Haven't had the chance to use it.

 

The world was ruled by religion, and they call it "The Dark Ages"

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avatarWell, at least they're TRYING, for pete's sake...

I used to say that the only thing MS did worse than product naming/branding was product advertising.

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avatar gotta love the net where

 gotta love the net where NOTHING ever vanishes.

 

...anyone got a link for Windows 3.1?

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