Posted on 07/01/2009 2:26:36 PM PDT by steve-b
I know a girl who gets somewhat uptight when she's in the passenger seat of a car going any more than 70 mph. However, put her on some insane roller coaster, and she's just fine.
The driving dangers are real, you see. Whereas the roller-coaster ride just feels wonderfully stomach-turning.
And so it is with this charming new online ad for Internet Explorer 8 from Microsoft. In most of its advertising, Microsoft has rarely reached 70 mph. But someone, somewhere deep within Microsoft, finally had the craving for the roller coaster.
Here we have a couple at the breakfast table. The husband is examining his laptop. It is not a Mac.
His wife asks to borrow his laptop for a minute. To be fair, shortly before she does this, she shows all the symptoms of being a little stressed. Her lips are tight. Her eyebrows seem even tighter.
She looks at her husband's screen. She is surprised at what she sees and says: "What's this?" Then her body begins involuntary motions. Will an alien being pop from her stomach, leap onto the table, and begin to sing a Celine Dion number?
Will she turn toward her husband, enraged at what she has just seen and assail him with words and fists and spittle and quotes from Joan Crawford?
Not quite.
In fact, she turns away from the kitchen table, not wishing to soil his PC. And then she vomits....
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Firefox is the antidote.
I’m afraid I don’t get. IE 8 makes you sick to your stomach?
I have Vista and I can’t even get Internet to load and access the internet. Am using Mozilla.
parsy, who thinks Microsoft owes America a refund for the last ten years of crap.
A waisted thread, log under the who cares department.
Can’t imagine how anyone over the age of 6 would think this is a good ad.
FWIW, I had a LOT of trouble loading IE7, which had the habit of freezing when I tried to open it.
IE8 has worked great since they issued the security update for it last month.
I don’t know if that’s just something on my computer. But anyway, it’s now much improved.
I know how she feels. My stomach churns every time I see the Microsoft logo.
Caveat Emptor - should have bought a Mac.
My dog who faithfully sits on my lap to see all the funny pictures, has his OMGIGP moment. In his case the letter “P” in the acronym stands for pee! I know he is having it because he starts lifting up his left leg. I know it is time for a walk, for his sake and mine.
Thanks for helping Free Republic hit a new low.
My IE7 refuses to recognize Java. There was a fix for this on the Internet which made java work but also installed Spyware. Java works perfectly under Opera.
I installed IE8 to see if it fixed the Java problem. It doesn’t.
whatever he/she/it said, it was zotted.
Not any more than any other Microsoft software. But it defaults to Bing and it takes some effort to make it go away.
I was in PC hell. Mozilla would drop me out 3-4 times a day. I bought a mac and have had NO problems since. Rebooting takes 2 minutes tops after an upgrade/download. This machine beats the PCs hands down. I’ve had PCs since 1994 and struggled with security for the duration. Buy a mac. You’ll love yourself.
It’s Java, not IE8. Get the uninstall tool from Java and uninstall all of it. Then redownload the new Java.
Helen Thomas's nude shot from her 2007 Christmas card to Bill Clinton?
Another possibility which may or may not work is a little program called JavaRa, which is designed to remove the excess Java junk that builds up on your computer. Java is badly designed and doesn’t bother to remove earlier versions that are no longer used.
I don’t know if it would fix that problem or not, but it does seem to tidy up the computer and hasn’t caused me any problems so far.
When the Clinton antitrusters made Microsoft give up their Java equivalent, which was much slimmer and worked much better, we got stuck with that junk from Sun in the name of openness—open to Sun, apparently.
Bump.
Apparently, a web page her husband had in his browser history was so disturbingly pornographic that it made her puke. (Sounds like he was on helenthomasnude.com.)
MS is advertising that with IE8, the husband could have left all those porno sites private so his wife would never know what he was doing, so she’d never puke again.
Charming.
And, apparently her first action when he let her use the laptop was to snoop into his browsing history. Charming on a whole other level....
MS ads have never made sense.
BTW, they’re still running that inane spot with the supposed video producer who needs to do some video editing. It is so far out of date that at this point it’s blatantly lying about the Mac laptop.
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