social media marketing | social marketing strategy from social marketing expert Wayne Clayton | social marketing | facebook | twitter » Microsoft http://socialmarketingexpert.org social marketing, social marketing strategy, social media marketing, Web 2.0 and social media optimization using social marketing facebook, twitter Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:28:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 New Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Ad – What Were You Thinking? http://socialmarketingexpert.org/uncategorized/new-microsoft-internet-explorer-8-ad-what-were-you-thinking/ http://socialmarketingexpert.org/uncategorized/new-microsoft-internet-explorer-8-ad-what-were-you-thinking/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:37:43 +0000 G. Wayne Clayton http://socialmarketingexpert.org/?p=809 I saw this and thought it was a Saturday Night Live skit (ala commercial parody.) It  shocked me when I read the actual and sheer stupidity on Microsoft’s part to put out this moronic waste of 30 seconds… read the article in the Wall Street Journal online Blogs:

Microsoft appears to have come to its senses over an advertisement that had some observers claiming it was the worst technology commercial ever.

The company has yanked official versions of the online-only ad for its Internet Explorer 8 Web browser off online video sites after users complained it was offensive. If you haven’t seen it, count yourself lucky.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/07/02/microsoft-makes-users-sick-pulls-ad/

Below is the tasteless video in question… sorry you MUST see this if only to learn what to NEVER do…

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