O.M.G.I.G.P. deemed too much for some
Remember those wacky IE8 ads with ex-Superman Dean Cain? While most where so off the wall one has been deemed a little too off the wall and been pulled by Microsoft.
O.M.G.I.G.P. standing for Oh My God I’m Gonna Puke, depicted a women throwing up after she saw something on her partners laptop after he gets up to get a drink.
The online-ad, which was one of four adverts staring Dean Cain, was designed to illustrate Internet Explorer 8’s Private Browsing mode.
However following feed back from users, it seems that the advert was perhaps a little too much for some.
“We make a point of listening to our customers. We created the OMGIGP video as a tongue-in-cheek look at the InPrivate Browsing feature of Internet Explorer 8, using the same irreverent humor that our customers told us they liked about other components of the Internet Explorer 8 marketing campaign. While much of the feedback to this particular piece of creative was positive, some of our customers found it offensive, so we have removed it,” a microsoft spokesperson told Pocket-lint.
Still while Microsoft has pulled the ad from their website, that hasn’t stopped it appearing on YouTube for you to catch again.
Just make sure when you press the play button that you don’t have any sympathetic vomitors around, else it could get messy.
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Microsoft pulls IE8 vomit ad originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:45:57 +0100
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