OK, so the whole “upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 with lolcats and everything” viral video idea might’ve failed, but what else could get those young peeps to upgrade their browsers? Nickelback you say? Ha! Microsoft is way ahead of you with their Internet Explorer 8 Nickelback Edition, download it and get a free, unreleased track [...]
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? [...]
I just thought of how Microsoft has managed to generate good buzz lately, releasing Windows 7 RC 1 free for everyone (for a year) and so on, but then someone at marketing just had to release something like the video above.
The ad features Wes, a “certified financial planner”, telling you how stupid the huge [...]
According to PC Pro Microsoft will give away Windows 7 for free for a full year(!) when the Release Candidate launches May 5th.
So, the free-as-in-beer RC will include all the features available in the final product and will be functional until June 1st 2010. That gives you more than a year of free testing [...]
Up until today Internet Explorer 8 has been a completely voluntary upgrade for Windows users, but as of now Microsoft tagged the upgrade as Important in Vista and High Priority in XP. That means it’ll pop up automatically for everyone, including upgrade-reluctant users like your mom & dad and all those other people gifted with [...]