businessweek.com - 4/5/2009
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So the blogosphere has been all over this Microsoft add where a perky redhead named Lauren buy “just what I wanted” – or rather an HP notebook running Windows. Her assignment, for the add is to get a notebook with a 17-inch screen for less than $1,000, and if she can find it, she can keep it. ...
techcrunch.com - 4/2/2009
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I’m here at the Web 2.0 Expo keynote,
where Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft Business Division, hinted...
that we may be seeing Microsoft Office make its way to the iPhone some time soon. After his interviewer Tim O’Reilly caught him on the comment, ...
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Is Office Finally Coming To The iPhone?
eweek.com - 4/2/2009
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Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's Business Division, tantalized
attendees of Web 2.0 Expo with hints that the...
software giant will eventually release a mobile version of Office for the iPhone. He also said that the company is continuing to work on ...
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Microsoft Executive Raises Hope for Office iPhone Edition
microsoft-watch.com - 3/30/2009
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March 30, 2009 2:55 AM Lauren Is Right:
Macs Cost More Than PCs [Editor's Note: This is...
one of two companion posts about Microsoft's newest "I'm a PC" commercial, featuring computer shopper Lauren. At Apple Watch, "Microsoft Shatters Mac Pricing Myths ...
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Marketing - Lauren Is Right: Macs Cost More Than PCs
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Microsoft at it again with 2nd ad tweaking Macs
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Cult of MacMicrosoft is really working hard to get potential Mac customers to either buy or stay with Windows-based PCs. After the initial "Lauren" ad -- see BusinessWeek's take on her choice of a poorly-rated HP model, and TechFlash & Apple 2.0 on her oddly extensive acting career for someone who supposedly answered a Craiglist ad for market research -- a new ad [YouTube link] in the series launched today.
Our new shopper, Giampaolo, looks at a Mac at a computer ...
You get what you pay for
The Macalope —
... This whole horse has been beaten into a mass of only vaguely horse-like matter by now, but as BusinessWeek’s Arik Hesseldahl points out, Microsoft’s actress paid less for the laptop she got because, dur-hey, it’s worth less. ...
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i.gizmodo.com 3/27/2009 — By now you've probably seen Microsoft's latest ad featuring Lauren , a woman who claims to not be cool or rich enough for a MacBook. Well Lauren, one of our readers has a gift for you. Mitch Gewirtz of Michigan would like to give you his 17-inch ...
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Someone Found Microsoft's Lauren! And She's an Actress. [Advertising]
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Shocking: New Microsoft Ad Implies Macs Are Inferior [Advertising] —
Gizmodo
Microsoft's new Lauren is a tech-savvy engineer with a complicated, foreign name, tasked with finding a laptop that'll address his needs for under $1,500. You'll never guess what this Microsoft-paid probable-actor decided to buy. That's right, it's a not-Mac! I mean, it's an HP! It's hard ...
Microsoft's Lauren ad faked say bloggers —
AppleInsider
Accusations are flying within the blogosphere that Microsoft simply faked its latest ad portraying a real buyer named Lauren shopping for a 17" notebook under $1000, who supposedly couldn't find what she was looking for in the Apple Store.
More 'I'm A PC' Money Saving Tips From Lauren —
iPhone Savior
These brilliantly crafted comic spoofs on Lauren De Long, Microsoft's latest "I'm A PC" girl may be the start of a long chain of hack jobs on this LA actress . It's possible that Lauren's fifteen minutes of fame may get a unplanned extension in the worst of way. Doh! [part 2 after the ...
I'm Lauren, I'm A PC and I'm A Paid Actress! —
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LOS ANGELES - If you remember Lauren, she's the supposed regular girl in Microsoft's new "Laptop Hunters" ad where Lauren is paid cash and then picks herself out an HP Pavilion laptop for under $1,000 dollars. Of course Lauren De Long has a negative experience visiting the Apple store ...