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Microsoft Launches "Get the Facts" Campaign for IE8

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 18th Jun 2009 20:36 UTC

With Internet Explorer 8 out the door, Microsoft is trying to capitalise on its latest browser release with a marketing campaign outlining several benefits Internet Explorer 8 supposedly has over Chrome and Firefox. The campaign is titled "Get the facts", so I guess most of you will know what will come.

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This is more shocking

by memson on Fri 19th Jun 2009 09:20 UTC

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2006-01-01

http://www.microsoft.com/australia/ie8/competition/default.aspx

This is outright insane propaganda! (mind you, going to the site with Safari 4.0 with the IE 8.0 user agent seems to work well enough ;-)

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RE: This is more shocking

by memson on Fri 19th Jun 2009 09:23 in reply to "This is more shocking"

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2006-01-01

Looking at it again - I'm sure they've toned it down. Originally it claimed that Firefox etc couldn't see the "clues", except they could if you set the user agent. It looks like the clues now load in FF too (as they didn't come up to begin with!) Egg on face?

This is what was originally happening:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeresig/sets/72157619870137650/detail/

Edited 2009-06-19 09:29 UTC

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RE: This is more shocking

by Thom_Holwerda on Fri 19th Jun 2009 09:24 in reply to "This is more shocking"

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Try reading the page with an Australian accent.

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RE[2]: This is more shocking

by Johann Chua on Sun 21st Jun 2009 11:37 in reply to "RE: This is more shocking"

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2005-07-22

Crocodile IE:

"You call that a browser? Now THIS is a browser!"

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