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#1 2009-07-02 11:42 pm

ptervin
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What Were They Thinking?

Can Microsoft not make anything right: Puke! eek

Bingo! confused


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#2 2009-07-02 11:59 pm

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Re: What Were They Thinking?

You kidding? I love it.


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#3 2009-07-03 12:27 am

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Re: What Were They Thinking?

Toilet humour is fine. For six year olds. This doesn't seem the best approach to sell a browser...not that they are actually doing so.


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#4 2009-07-03 11:17 am

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Re: What Were They Thinking?

because safari doesn't have private browsing?


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#5 2009-07-03 11:28 am

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Re: What Were They Thinking?

Oh, how quickly we forget


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#6 2009-07-03 11:34 am

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Re: What Were They Thinking?

i smurfing hate musicals


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#7 2009-07-03 1:42 pm

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Re: What Were They Thinking?

So do I.

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#8 2009-07-03 5:48 pm

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Re: What Were They Thinking?

Their ads for Internet Explorer 8 have Dean Cain trying to be funny in them. Trying to pass off IE8 as better than all the other browsers out there.

Yeah. Good one, MS.


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#9 2009-07-03 5:55 pm

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Re: What Were They Thinking?

It doesn't technically have to be toilet humor. Could be floor humor, bucket humor, plastic bag humor, etc.


"I personally think that with the budget they've planned, Halo [the movie] will be a failure. I think Halo will not make the money back in the end."
-Uwe Boll (made the films: Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead, Bloodrayne, Far Cry, Postal)

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#10 2009-07-04 10:56 am

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Re: What Were They Thinking?

Are these real ads? They look like the SNL crew.


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#11 2009-07-04 1:22 pm

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Re: What Were They Thinking?

pastor macman wrote:

Are these real ads? They look like the SNL crew.

Yeah... it is a real ad


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#12 2009-07-04 3:44 pm

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Re: What Were They Thinking?

Sad....just sad.

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#13 2009-07-04 8:30 pm

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Re: What Were They Thinking?

Just when you thought you saw the worst, it gets worster.


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#14 2009-07-05 7:20 pm

SomeOneOrOther
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Re: What Were They Thinking?

ptervin wrote:

Just when you thought you saw the worst, it gets worster.

Damn, he's gone from Superman to Superchump.

So pathetic that MS appeals to our hearts to "feed America" by asking us to download their crap (browserforthebetter.com)

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#15 2009-07-09 11:20 am

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Re: What Were They Thinking?

I hate to say that this one isn't bad... compared to those other two... I don't know if it's real...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUawhjxL … r_embedded

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