New Internet Explorer 8 Ad w/ Dean Cain
Here’s Microsoft’s new ad for Internet Explorer 8 featuring Dean Cain (you know, Superman from the Lois and Clark TV series back in the 90’s) performing a fumbling and obviously intentionally awkward sales pitch for the browser’s sharing abilities. Could you be suffering from S.H.Y.N.E.S.S too? As in Sharing Heavily Yet Not Enough Sharing Still? Oh well.
The ad has gotten some really bad reviews, some just automatically bashing it because it’s a) from Microsoft and b) about Internet Explorer, but I don’t know, IE used to be a seriously crappy browser but I think they’ve managed to fix most of it over at Redmond. I wouldn’t vote for it as a great ad though, just adding an actor from yesteryear and lolcats won’t make this viral, something they’ve apparently gone for. I’m just happy for anything that helps getting IE 6 users to upgrade, that percentage just has to go DOWN.