Ten Grand

Microsoft is using a ridiculous marketing tactic to get people to download and use their latest trainwreck web browser, Internet Explorer 8. They’ve created this campaign where you use Internet Explorer 8 and follow a twitter user to get clues to where this ten grand could be.

We’ve buried $10,000 somewhere on the Internet
and if you’re the first one to find it, you get to keep it.
But you’ll never find it using old Firefox.
(So get rid of it, or get lost)

Suuuuure, Firefox is old alright. And apparently IE 8 is a lot better than we all thought.

What’s even better? Someone who works for Firefox, created a website called TenGrandIsBuriedThere.com which is basically a Google map with a crop circle of the Firefox logo that you’ll see if you zoom in enough. Some nice marketing for Firefox.

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  1. That does seem kinda pitiful. IE8 is actually a big improvement over 6, but I’m an Opera fan, so I’m even snobbier than the Firefox folks. :)

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