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Microsoft Pushes IE8 with Video about Vomiting

Posted 07/01/09 at 10:30:40 AM by Paul Lilly

Far be it for Microsoft to shy away from hiring known celebrities to pitch its products, as was the case with hiring Jerry Seinfeld as its OS pitchman. But now the software maker is looking to push Internet Explorer 8 in the cutthroat browser wars, and it's getting a bit of help from TV Superman Dean Cain. Oh, and there's puking too.

So far there are a total of four adverts, each one starring Dean Cain as the on-screen narrator. But it's the fourth video in the series that will get all the attention for its vivid portrayal of a woman puking after viewing something apparently offensive online - or maybe she's a Houston Rockets fan and just read up on Yao Ming's foot.

Take a peek:

G.R.I.P.E.S.
F.O.M.S.
S.H.Y.N.E.S.S.
O.M.G.I.G.P. (NSFWS - Not Safe For Weak Stomachs)

Hit the jump and tell us what you think of the new ads.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Submitted by Raiju on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 4:40pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB9fhjnJcB0 Still hase the video, I want to know what the guy says when he got bleeped.

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Woah, The O.M.G.I.G.P. video
Submitted by patrickmaher on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 5:59pm

Woah, The O.M.G.I.G.P. video has been removed from all the video sites it was on. Now I want to see it.

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Interesting.
Submitted by theprettiestprincess on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 12:09pm

It makes me think of my name here!

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Taking Dean Cain's
Submitted by AntiHero on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 9:52am

Taking Dean Cain's credibility and slapping it on a fucking terribad browser. Probelms off the release "featured" inability to use many office based programs, and ones that did some form of opening another page, and then interacting information with the previous window were disallowed by a feature called XSS. Turning XSS off was a pain in the ass. It was slower than Firefox 3 was on beta. Also many web designers (Especially ones who used dynamic php based websites) were pissed off to see that unless your site was static and strait flash or html, it was considered an "old" design. Compatability mode solved this, however why should a website done on the Web 2.0 platform be labelled as "designed for older browsers" and the old style HTML based pages are considered new? I know one site that runs from ASP, and that one was also messed up withou comptability mode, which is ironic because ASP is a microsoft based website technology. PHP is actually the new style of doing things. Internet Explorer 6 processes dynamic php sites the same way 8 does without compatability mode on. Microsoft needs to stop building from the ground up, and instead build from what worked best. 7 wasn't great, but it was pretty alright.

I don't like Microsoft, I associate with it.

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I'm a big fan of vommiting.
Submitted by lunchbox73 on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 8:18am

I'm a big fan of vommiting. It always makes me laugh.

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Well it's gonna make people
Submitted by deathdefier on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 8:15am

Well it's gonna make people remember what it is

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I thought these were pretty
Submitted by atomaweapon on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 7:37am

I thought these were pretty funny. The vomit one was a bit munch but all good nonetheless.

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