Oooh! My NAUGHTY SKIRT keeps riding up! Hello, INTERNET EXPLORER Microsoft has come up with a new way to market Internet Explorer to Asian customers, and it's a major departure from the kinds of ad campaigns we're used to seeing from Redmond here in the West. Inori Aizawa, the 'personification of IE' Here she is, Miss Internet Explorer Meet Inori Aizawa, Microsoft's latest spokeswoman. …
Yeah, damn Microsoft for tailoring their advertising to the cultural interests of the countries that they're advertising in.
I personally hate it when we get generic badly dubbed American or European adverts in the UK, it's utterly transparent and alienates me from the product being sold.
I hate it more when people somehow think that their way of doing things is better or more proper than other countries. I was in Japan recently and I found it refreshing that you'd be on the underground at rush hour and you'd see 40-50 something businessmen with little Maga characters hung as decorations off their phones. If you saw that in the UK, you'd think something was wrong with them for wanting to do that, but it's normal there. You see everyone reading Manga from 8 to 80, it's something like 50% of book sales.
Why not add a little bit of nipple too.........( fnaar fnaar)
Depending on ones cultural background I presume that the image would be acceptable in Japan but unacceptable in Britain. Theresa May would have it classifed as Porn/PaedoBearImagery.
(Pun coming up) : Just how does one draw the line between the two ?
How long before someone (4chan? looking at you) comes up with hentai images making malware-tans having their way with IE-tan....
Of course, Rule 34 being Rule 34, if someone has thought about the possibility, it means someone else already has and if the images don't already exist, they're well on their way to existing.
Forum page that is itself bland, but the topics listed are certainly NSFW.
Wikipedia says that "OS-tans" have existed for a while now.
"hentai images making malware-tans having their way with IE-tan...."
Better make them look dated then....These days IE is the best browser at blocking malware and phishing attempts....
http://vr-zone.com/articles/tests-conclude-internet-exlporer-blocks-99-6-malware/40367.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tests-conclude-internet-exlporer-blocks-99-6-malware
.These days IE is the best browser at blocking malware and phishing attempts....
So why is it then that all the machines I see that've had a "web based" infection (including the likes of "drive by downloads") are all from IE-only households, and nothing for FF/Chrome/Safari then? If it's so much more secure than other browsers it should be performing so much better.
Or maybe the performance in all areas is poor because the product is poor? IME (which is gained from currently working at the front lines of IT repair for the last few years and a couple of decades largely in IT elsewhere) IE is still much (and noticeably) slower than anything else and security is still such an afterthought that it has yet to actually appear on IE.
How many Asians have blue eyes?
And this is bordering on hebephilia and is more than a little 'Creepy' coming from a corporate hive mind like MS.
Did they specifically desire a sexually provocative 13 year old with budding breasts and a short skirt to be their mascot?
What next? Will she be doing Money Shots if you buy VS13?
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