Microsoft stopped running this Internet ad, which features a woman vomiting three times upon seeing a site her husband had visited, after complaints.
This must be one of those cases where they knew it would be dropped, and wanted the free publicity.
Also: Dean Cain, you need a new agent!
That ad was completely disgusting. And what kind of publicity are they going to get? It won’t be good–it’s a complete turn-off.
I already hated Internet Explorer–now I associate it with vomit. Great marketing…
Plus its not as if IE is the only browser with a porn mode.
That would be a pretty good SNL sketch. Not such a good ad for IE.
It wouldn’t be so bad if she just turned away from the camera and we heard retching noises. But actually showing the vomit coming out of her mouth? That’s just unnecessary.
Then again, though, we’re also supposed to accept that the husband is surfing porn at the kitchen table with his wife sitting right next to him, and she doesn’t know. And we’re also supposed to accept that that Microsoft’s magic gizmo is able to tell that somebody different is looking at the computer five seconds later, without the guy pressing a single button or clicking the mouse. So the ad fails on multiple levels.