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youtube.com - 4/3/2009
Microsoft busted!!! Lauren never entered the Apple store! (video)
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Microsoft made us think that Lauren passed some time in the Apple Store and could find a 17inch laptop under 1000$. It was a lie
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microsoft-watch.com - 3/30/2009
Marketing - Lauren Is Right: Macs Cost More Than PCs
— microsoft-watch.com — 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 ... (more) Marketing - Lauren Is Right: Macs Cost More Than PCs

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Microsoft's Lauren: She Bought The Fourth-Best Computer
businessweek.com - 4/5/2009
Microsoft's Lauren: She Bought The Fourth-Best Computer
— businessweek.com — 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 ... (more) Microsoft's Lauren: She Bought The Fourth-Best Computer

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Someone Found Microsoft's Lauren! And She's an Actress. [Advertising]
i.gizmodo.com - 3/31/2009
Someone Found Microsoft's Lauren! And She's an Actress. [Advertising]
— i.gizmodo.com — We were hoping to catch up with Microsoft's "Lauren," a regular gal who Microsoft surprised with $1,000... to buy a laptop...in a national commercial. And it ends up she's an LA-based, SAG-eligible actress. Tracked down by TechFlash , "Lauren" (who is ... (more) Someone Found Microsoft's Lauren! And She's an Actress. ...

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AppleInsider:  Microsoft's Lauren ad faked say bloggers

Insanely Great Mac:  Mac Fanboys go Zapruder on Microsoft Lauren

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Microsoft's Lauren ad faked say bloggers
AppleInsider — By Prince McLean Published: 06:00 PM EST 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. Bloggers forensically studied the advertisement in slow motion, pointing out that the shots of Lauren entering and leaving the store appear to have been shot all at once; the surrounding people walking past in both shots appear in the same place. This must mean, they conclude, that Lauren never entered the store looking for the $1000 17" notebook, and that the ad simply included a scene at "the Mac ...

Mac Fanboys go Zapruder on Microsoft Lauren
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