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MSFT Wishes You Happy Porn Browsing in New Vomit-Filled Video, Then Retracts Ad

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Jul 03, 2009

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Under waves of ever-increasing competition from Mozilla, Safari, and Google, Microsoft has released a series of PSA-style online videos to promote Internet Explorer 8.

Featuring onetime Lois and Clark actor Dean Cain (who has apparently become the poor man's Bruce Campbell), the ads are uncharacteristically hip and discuss such real-world Internet problems as the fear of missing something (a.k.a. insomnia by social media) and the fear of your S.O. finding your porn cache. However, at least one of the video was just too cool for Microsoft. After becoming strangely popular and talked-about online, the video has been renounced by the software megacompany and pulled from the promotional website. Somewhere tonight, a creative director weeps.

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