{"id":747,"date":"2002-10-14T10:46:22","date_gmt":"2002-10-15T00:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/14\/microsoft-switchers-oops\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:52:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:52:08","slug":"microsoft-switchers-oops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/14\/microsoft-switchers-oops\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft switchers &#8211; oops!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6280,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308081928\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 23:56:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-22 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Apparently the campaign is doing fairly well \u2014 at least well enough for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/\" title=\"Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> to start a <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=02\/10\/14\/1232229\" title=\"\/.: Microsoft tries a 'switch' campaign\">similar campaign<\/a> of its own.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, since they (apparently) couldn&#8217;t find any customers that had actually <em>made<\/em> the switch from the Mac to Windows, <em>and<\/em> were happy about it, <em>and<\/em> willing to talk about it \u2014 they had to combine <del>fictional accounts<\/del> <ins>a hired freelance writer&#8217;s story<\/ins> with <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=42252&amp;cid=4447391\" title=\"\/.: She's a Photodisc model too!\">stock photography<\/a>, as pointed out on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashdot.org\/\" title=\"Slashdot\">\/.<\/a> earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, this <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=42252&amp;cid=4448357\" title=\"\/.: She's not the only one...\">isn&#8217;t a rare practice<\/a>, either. 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