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Microsoft Announces $10K Competition To Promote IE8 in Australia, Takes Potshots At Firefox, Safari And Chrome
Posted By Keith Dsouza On June 17, 2009 @ 9:20 pm In Featured Articles | 2 Comments
You can see the details on Microsoft’s Ten Grand Is Buried Here campaign [4], however right now this site works only on IE browsers.
Just for fun Microsoft makes fun of any browser other than IE8 that you use to visit the above site, for example if you use Google Chrome [5], you will see a message against Chrome and so on.
Surprisingly when you visit the page using Opera, you will see a message saying "your browser" instead of Opera.
Wow Microsoft we admire your guts, however a Mozilla fan and Ubiquity developer went ahead and registered another domain called TenGrandIsBuriedThere.com [6], this is going to be fun now. Thanks Mitcho [7].
What do you think about the campaign? Would you switch to IE8 to win 10 Grand? Let us know about your views and opinions.Article printed from Techie Buzz: http://techie-buzz.com
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URLs in this post:
[1] IE8: http://techie-buzz.com/tag/ie8
[2] Opera Unite: http://techie-buzz.com/innovations/opera-unit-reinvents-browsers.html
[3] Firefox: http://techie-buzz.com/tag/firefox
[4] Ten Grand Is Buried Here campaign: http://www.microsoft.com/australia/ie8/competition/
[5] Google Chrome: http://techie-buzz.com/tag/google-chrome
[6] TenGrandIsBuriedThere.com: http://tengrandisburiedthere.com/
[7] Mitcho: http://mitcho.com/blog/projects/ten-grand-is-buried-there/
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