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Subject: Microsoft IE8 marketing
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runestar 18.06.09 - 01:12am
for australians 
oh boy...
http://www.microsoft.com/australia/ie8/competition/
If the page taunts your browser/system or gives you a 404 then you may need to switch user agents. *
runestar 18.06.09 - 01:14am
This is atleast as bad as Mojave and the recent ads where some dude supposedly gets 2000 bucks and goes to a store and picks a windows pc and they make a big deal about it being windows pc, not a mac, but windows pc. 
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runestar 18.06.09 - 01:19am
Also this user agent cr*p is very rude and also goes against the principles of unrestricted access on the web. There are other s**tty sites that demand use of IE (or any specific browser) for NO REAL REASON just because they either have a sponsor deal with MS or they are missing a few screws in the head.
So this is bad on multiple levels not just the most obvious ones. *
runestar 18.06.09 - 01:27am
Not to mention the fail attempts at trying to shove silverlight down people's throats even though it is not even close to the portability and universal access that is Adobe Flash. Flash is practically a de facto standard and until MS silverlight is usable of dozens of different operating systems and setups they can kindly go f*** themselves with their lame cr*p. *
runestar 18.06.09 - 01:31am
They really should stop underestimating users and making fools out of themselves.
Serious ads and campaigns = People take you seriously *
runestar 20.06.09 - 03:04am
update: the IE8 main page has hilarious cr*p too *
runestar 3.07.09 - 09:18pm
MS just got caught for trying to change people's default search engine to Bing without permission with the Windows Search Service .
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