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Toward the end of the video above, several of the comedians tapped by Microsoft for the campaign also imply what everyone knows: the new private browsing mode in Internet Explorer 8 (and Firefox 3.5 and Google Chrome) isn't just for privacy advocates. There might be another reason people would like to surf the web without saving any cookies or other items that would indicate which web sites they've been visiting. It's not exactly rocket science, but it's interesting to see it (almost) acknowledged in an officially sanctioned video from Microsoft.
You can check out more videos in the series at the IE8 YouTube page or on Microsoft's web site for the campaign. But you'll need to have Silverlight installed to see the videos on the latter site.
[via Mashable]
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Subscribe to commentsMike CermMar 20th 2009 2:39PM
Nice to see Microsoft lightening up a bit. Google, with it's holiday logos (like today's First Day of Spring) and the Chrome launch comic, deserves a lot of credit for making a giant, soulless corporation feel like a ragtag bunch of friendly nerds.
Microsoft has been doing pretty well lately, and doing more stuff like this is just what Microsoft needs
asurrocaMar 20th 2009 2:59PM
Forget about the acknowledgement of pr0n browsing mode... Microsoft putting a clip of the Ask a Ninja dude making fun of "developers developers developers" is awesome....
iofthestormMar 22nd 2009 4:20PM
When I am ninja, he is ninja, she is neeeeeenjaaa too...
Sam JordanMar 20th 2009 3:45PM
That is hilarious and @asurroca is so right, there is much funnier stuff on there than the pron mode bit.
"Hey. Preaching to the choir!"
"Microsoft, Window to the soul, Home edition, premium!"
Awesomeness!
CowmanMar 20th 2009 6:28PM
Well that was a waste of time for me, The only part I liked out of that video was the buying of a bag of leaves.
r3loadedMar 20th 2009 10:26PM
The ninja guy was epic! Hurray for the new Microsoft!
sitrucMar 21st 2009 10:53AM
What's with the Silverlight warnings on these sites?
dreamscape86Mar 21st 2009 8:10PM
Ask a Ninja doing "Developers, developers, developers..." is classic...
BrianMar 22nd 2009 1:12PM
The only way this could be better is if there were more of it; An entire hour of it on XBLM.