news.cnet.com - 7/2/2009
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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 ...
adweek.com - 7/1/2009
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adweek.com —
- Noreen O'Leary and Andrew McMains NEW YORK
In a major realignment of its agency roster, Microsoft...
is shifting ad chores on its Office business suite to WPP Group's JWT, according to sources. The Office business had been handled previously by ...
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Microsoft Moves Office to JWT From McCann
microsoft.com - 7/7/2009
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microsoft.com —
Microsoft irrevocably promises not to assert any Microsoft
Necessary Claims against you for making, using, selling, offering...
for sale, importing or distributing any implementation, to the extent it conforms to one of the Covered Specifications, and ...
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Microsoft Community Promise
technologizer.com - 6/30/2009
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technologizer.com —
Internet Explorer 8 is a decent browser ,
but there’s a new ad for it (showing only...
online, according to Idsgn, which is where I read about it by way of Daring Fireball) that not only doesn’t make me wanting to use IE, but has me ...
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Microsoft’s Odd (and, in One Case, Utterly Revolting) ...
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GigaOM Network —
... Microsoft Dumps Vomit Ad; viral spot for Internet Explorer featuring a woman vomiting over the web sites her husband visits is pulled. (CNET) ...
Microsoft Chokes On Its Own Ad; Quickly Pulls 'Vom.com' Spot
paidContent —
... ) told CNET that ad was intended to humorously highlight IE8’s InPrivate Browsing feature. But as complaints rose, Microsoft and its agency, Bradley and Montgomery, decided to remove the ad from their respective sites. The spot is still on YouTube for the time being. ...
Microsoft pulls pukey IE8 ad
The Microsoft Blog —
... , which is Microsoft's IE8 promotional Web site. Microsoft apparently got a slew of complaints about the video. "We make a point of listening to our customers," a Microsoft spokesperson said in an e-mail to CNET News . "We created the OMGIGP video as a tongue-in-cheek look at the InPrivate Browsing feature 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 campaign. While much of the feedback to this particular piece of creative was positive, some of our customers found it ...
Microsoft Gets Rid of Vomit Ad; Stomachs Everywhere are Relieved
Maximum PC all RSS Feed —
... "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." ...
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5 Features IE Will Likely Crib from Firefox 3.5 —
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Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 browser launched today not only besting Internet Explorer 8 when it comes to features, in my opinion, and also when it comes to speed. As I'll predict here, for its next Internet Explorer launch Microsoft will crib innovative ...
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