Microsoft have pulled a pukey advert for private browsing mode introduced for their internet browser IE8.
A woman borrows her husband's computer, visits a curious link in his Internet browser history (presumably porn), and vomits all over her husband. Then Dean Cain shows up and tells the viewer how to avoid such situations by using IE8's private-browsing
mode.
Anyway, Microsoft has pulled the advertisement - as much as you can from the Internet. The ad, as you can tell, is still available on YouTube and other places, though not through Microsoft. It was also taken off of BrowserForTheBetter.com, 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 offensive, so we have removed
it.
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Google have jumped the gun on Microsoft who announced a porn mode facility for the next release of their Internet Explorer browser. Google have just released their new browser, Chrome, featuring similar functionality.
