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Microsoft chucks vomit ad

Saturday, 4. July 2009, 03:14:21

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Microsoft chucks vomit ad

Update at 8:50 a.m. PDT: The video has now disappeared from the ad agency's site as well.

Earlier this week, we were all rather intrigued by the appearance of a Microsoft ad, in which a wife borrows her husband's laptop and suffers a technicolor nightmare when she espies a site that he has been, um, enjoying.

By Wednesday night, however, Microsoft had second thoughts about the pulling power of puke.

The ad has been pulled from the IE8videos channel on YouTube. It's also has been removed from the BrowsefortheBetter.com site, which is part of the ad campaign. The vomit ad's slot has been replaced by a tag that says "coming soon."

This could have meant that a new ad is coming soon, or that the upchuck was uploaded too soon.

Read the rest of the story and see the video here.

I saw that particular ad for IE8 on the site before Microsoft took it down. Microsoft now distributes IE8 as a "critical" patch on the Widows Update site. IE8 is a resource hog; if you have multiple tabs open, it will slow your computer to a crawl forcing you to reboot your system. I don't have that problem with other browswers. PCWorld wonders why Microsoft keeps beating a dead browser. Some people have even uninstalled IE8 in favor of IE7. I don't blame them, but I prefer to use browsers like Opera, Firefox and even Safari, than use IE8.


On a different note, for some time I have been unable to access my News page here on MyOpera. I can't get to my subsrciptions on there for whatever reason. It currently has over 240 items in it and I'm unable to check it. :irked: I've even done a forum post on it, but alas, to no avail. Is there somebody who can help me with this?

UPDATE: Thank you Kim. Your advice worked and my news page is back up and running again. :happy:



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SqueakeyCat 4. July 2009, 03:36

if you can, mark all as read. i know it will mean scratching what is there now,but its all i could when i had that problem.

i wound up waiting for a new post by my friends before i could respond to their earlier posts.

though i had to wait for new posts from my friends, it wound up being the only way to get around that particular problem.

sorry

angel292005 4. July 2009, 09:17

Wow, Microsoft is fighting for attention.

OMGIGP I think she lost her bran cereal in that. :yuck:

Did you get the news problem fixed?

FXM256 4. July 2009, 17:45

Thanks Kim, I will give that a try if I can ever get onto the News page. Hopefully this will get it working again.

Hi Sarah, I guess Microsoft was trying to be funny with that ad. :rolleyes: I'm still trying to get the news problem fixed. It's very annoying since it makes it extra hard to keep up with your subscriptions when you can't even get to them.

Mickeyjoe_irl 4. July 2009, 21:26

Maybe it was a reference to the way IE 8 could make your computer sick.

angel292005 4. July 2009, 21:56

I know I may be way out in left field, but change your blog design to one of the newer default ones. Don't use your banner. Un-install and reinstall Opera browser. Then try it.

My point is to try everything else before a mod has to get involved, ya know?

FXM256 5. July 2009, 20:42

Hi Mickey, I've read articles detailing the same thing too. Fortunately IE8 didn't mess my computer up that bad.

Hi Sarah, thanks to Kim's advice, my news feeds are working again! :yes:

SqueakeyCat 6. July 2009, 00:07

weeeeeee u mean i did something right for someone? thats a change. most people yell at me and tell me to shut up that i don't know what i'm talking about.

glad it helped.

FXM256 7. July 2009, 06:33

Thanks again, Kim. I'm so happy that your suggestion did the trick. :smile:

SqueakeyCat 9. July 2009, 05:00

me too, i know how it is when you get overloaded on the watch list, i have done it many times, and have had to go to the library just to perform that task....lol

FXM256 12. July 2009, 20:56

That was not a good experience to have, but thankfully it is finally over. :smile:

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