Microsoft’s Nauseating Ad
The software company’s latest spokeswoman can’t keep her breakfast down.
Microsoft (MSFT) has posted to its YouTube channel (yes, even Microsoft has a YouTube channel), four mock public-service announcements to get the Web community to start buzzing again about its latest browser, Internet Explorer 8. The "Browse Better" videos are humorous enough, touching on how to best share cuddly cat pics and speed up page downloads. But there's one they don't want you to see. We have it here.
Title: O M G I G P Internet Explorer 8 Puke Vomit Girl
Stats: There are a half-dozen versions of this ad now circulating on YouTube, even though Microsoft itself has pulled the original version. This one has attracted over 803,000 views and 799 text comments since it was posted to YouTube on June 26.
What you see: A sweet-enough-looking couple are at the breakfast table. After a moment, the man steps up from the table and away from his laptop and hands off the computer to his wife. After a few moments of surfing around, she gets a queasy feeling and begins to—how can we put this delicately?—projectile vomit. Amid this scene of domestic turmoil, in steps Dean Cain of Superman fame to inform us that Internet Explorer 8, the latest browser from Microsoft, has "in-private" browsing that can hide your Web-surfing tracks and prevent your spouse from finding those really oddball fetish sites that can ruin a breakfast.
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