Well this is one way to keep market share if you have a quarter of a million dollars for a marketing budget. Starting from today, Microsoft is hosting a two month promotion, “The IE7 Shop with More Confidence Sweepstakes” in partnership with PayPal to give 25 lucky users each $10,000 to spend via PayPal.
Sure they could have put that money back into the development of Internet Explorer to make it a more competitive web browser, but that wouldn’t be as fun would it?
To enter, it is suggested you first watch a ridiculously boring Flash animation before being redirected to the entry page (or just go straight to it), then complete an entry form on the promotion website. However as the name suggests, it is a promotion for Internet Explorer 7 so it makes sense you will need to use it to access the page. If you try to access the page from other browsers, it will first ask you to download and install IE7. Fortunately for Firefox users like myself, IETab gives the best of both worlds in situations like this. Sorry, but I feel even more confident shopping with Firefox. The sweepstake ends on January 31, 2008.
Sometimes I wished Australia could just become the 51st state of the United States just so I can participate in all these sweepstakes. And for a while under the Howard government, that didn’t seem too far off either.
16 Comments
cullen d
I can has?
Dave
53rd? What would be the 51st and 52nd?
Long Zheng
Whoops. My US government knowledge has failed me.
bernard
what happened to 51st and 52nd? Afghanistan & Iraq?
cullen d
Bernard, I thought those were the names of a new chain of Gas Stations opening?
Mitchel Tyrell
IE7 with Protected Mode on Vista is still the safest browsing experience you can get short of running everything in a virtual machine. IEtab doesn’t give you that.
Matt Sharpe
Yawn. I am so tired of US-only stuff. It’s really lame – isn’t the Internet meant to be a global thing?
Jason Cox
“Sometimes I wished Australia could just become the 51st state of the United States [...]”
Dont give Bush any ideas, Long or else you’ll find a Abrams sitting on your lawn tomorrow.
webguy
IE7 is what I use normally. Thanks for the tip I just registered!
Robert McLaws
51 & 52 would be Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, if they ever voted for statehood.
Matt S.
Puerto Rico has tried to become a state several times but their prodominately spanish speaking population among others things have always kept the discussion in committees.
As for the 52nd state I would think DC would be closer to being a new state then the Virgin Islands..
quikboy
Firefox is ok. But from what I’ve heard, IE7 has the extra security features that makes it more secure than Firefox. That’s the story I got from news sources. And no, I’m not talking about previous IE’s, so don’t refer to that.
Well I use IE7 anyways, but I’m not going for this lame contest. Sounds dumb. And not many sites support PayPal, even if it is the largest internet currency.
Michael Mc
Back off AU!
We all know the UK is the 51st State!
Sri
Feel more confident shopping with Firefox/EITab that IE7?
Ummm… IETab is an embedded IE browser object within Firefox… so you ARE shopping with IE7! (unless if it’s on a PC that’s still got IE6 – then that’s what you’re really using when in IETab)
Long Zheng
@Sri: No I meant shopping with Firefox itself.
Chris
with the extra ie7 security it puts others to shame… and with firefox becoming more and more bloated and memory intensive it just keeps making internet explorer even better.
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