Comments on: Internet Explorer 8 treasure hunt: Microsoft Australia hides $10,000 on a website, find it, keep it

By: Microsoft Australia’s “Edge of the Internet” prize found – istartedsomething

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:04:58 +0000

[...] didn’t nearly attract as much viral publicity or participation as the first “Ten grand is buried here“, both of which was designed to drive awareness for new releases of Internet [...]

By: �� 8 - ��

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By: Tune Up Your PC » Post Topic » What I learned from the IE8 competition… since I paid for it :)

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:37:29 +0000

[...] let me tell you, it certainly generated noise. After Long Zhen a popular blogger in Australia picked up the competition, the Twitter universe went craaazy, mentions of the site ended up #3 on Digg/technology, #3 on [...]

By: JerryM

JerryM — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:35:24 +0000

Yep, so that’s not even 48 hours before the Mr Subtle leading this campaign gets whopped with big bit of 4 x 2:

http://www.microsoft.com/australia/ie8/competition/default.aspx

By: Microsoft changes IE8 “Ten Grand is Buried Here” campaign, users of all browsers invited to participate - istartedsomething

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:24:00 +0000

[...] Internet Explorer 8 treasure hunt: Microsoft Australia hides $10,000 on a website, find it, keep it [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:42:52 +0000

WTF?
They’re having to bribe people into using their shit?
$10 grand ain’t with it.
Fuck Off MS.
Damn.

By: Microsoft ramps up the browser wars | calltoreason.org

Microsoft ramps up the browser wars | calltoreason.org — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:18:35 +0000

[...] Microsoft Australia is running a competition to encourage people to switch to Internet Explorer 8 by hiding a AUD$10,000 cash prize on a website [...]

By: Teguh

Teguh — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:40:28 +0000

@JerryM : 12-year-old copywriters?

I dare you : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/brows er-comparison.aspx

By: Defender Team » A ‘corrida do ouro’ da Microsoft eo Internet Explorer 8

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:59:19 +0000

[...] Segundo o site oficial da promoção, você precisa estar usando o IE8 para procurar as pistas divulgadas. Meio previsível, mas né. [ I Started Something ] [...]

By: 't gezwets

't gezwets — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:42:17 +0000

$10.000 verstopt op het web…

De ontdekker mag het houden…

Klik op de afbeelding voor de link….