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Microsoft pulls projectile-vomiting IE8 ad from Web
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Source: ComputerWorld
July 04, 2009
An online ad for Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) that showed a woman projectile vomiting has left such a bad taste in viewers' mouths that Microsoft has decided to remove it. The ad, which features American actor Dean Cain and shows a woman vomiting after seeing her husband's Web browsing history, is still available via YouTube. However, Microsoft has removed it from the IE8videos channel on YouTube and the BrowsefortheBetter.com site. That site is part of Microsoft's campaign to promote IE8. The ad was meant to promote Microsoft's InPrivate browsing feature of its new Web browser, which allows people to erase their history so other people can't see where they've been on the Web. However, it instead provoked widespread revulsion from many viewers, some of whom doubted the video could have been made by Microsoft because it was so disgusting.
