Microsoft posted a dumbass “testimonial” from someone (by coincidence, an attractive woman…what are the odds of that?!) who recounts why she switched from the Mac to XP. Everything about this “real life” testimonial is phony, starting with the faux voice:

To my surprise, the process of switching was as easy as the marketing hype had promised. I was up and running in less than one day, Girl Scout’s honor. First, let me tell you more about why I converted.

After the page had begun circulating through mailing lists (“Can’t they find even one real person to give a testimonial?”), Microsoft deleted it. We can’t know the cause, but we can only hope that Microsoft recognized that such an obviously bogus ploy works against them.

Thank goodness for Google and its amazing feats of memory (= its cache).

(There’s more on the story from the AP and at Slashdot.)

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