After yesterday’s post about the vomit inducing Microsoft advert, I couldn’t help but mention that other piece of (evil) marketing genius from Redmond for Internet Explorer 8 that has hit the press today.
If you download Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft will donate eight meals to the “Feeding America” campaign.
Internet news sites are already awash with commentary regarding Microsoft’s “download IE 8 or a child starves” approach, with a saddening number of responses from some Internet malcontents that Americans don’t need any additional feeding. For once, I’m not going to add grist …

Just when I think the world isn’t getting any worse, Microsoft pop up and deliver something so truly misguided that it is brilliant.
YouTube – O M G I G P Internet Explorer 8.
Pop quiz … “What Worse?”
1: That multi-billion dollar multi-national mega-corporation Microsoft is resorting to the “Internet Explorer will hide your porn” argument to try and shift IE8
or
2: They are using Dean Cain, who used to be Superman, to do it?
I leave it to your own soul to decide.

What a pleasure to see that, on the day that HP unveil their stunning beautiful netbook interface for Ubuntu, we get to see Microsoft’s Chief Engineers admit “We messed up” and Windows 7 is deemed less secure than Vista.
Geordie LaForge these guys aint.
Viva la open source.

A handy description of how to fix being given the wrong key by your sys admin