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The man behind Microsoft's infamous anti-Google "Scroogled" ads is leaving the company, it was announced Wednesday.

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The man behind Microsoft’s infamous anti-Google “Scroogled” ads is leaving the company, it was announced Wednesday.

Scroogled.com, which served as the website for the multi-million dollar ad campaign that spanned over the last few years, became inactive earlier this year. But plenty of the spots, which Mark Penn had a hand in making, still live on YouTube.

Before joining Microsoft, Penn was an operative for Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Here’s a look at some of the Scroogled ads created by Microsoft under Penn in the past:

An ad taking apart the Google Chromebook, starring the guys from Pawn Stars:

Another bashing the Google app store:

Here’s one on Outlook versus Gmail: