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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 The vomit ad's slot has been replaced by a tag that says "coming soon."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. 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.


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