Is this a wind-up?

Have I stumbled across Microsoft’s next great advertising campaign or am i hopelessly wrong?

I saw a post on SBSFAQ a couple of days ago where Wayne said his SBSGuru identity had been stolen and linked to another site

I had a quick look at the site and since there were only three entries i thought i’d see if any more content appeared before blogging about it

Then i got a comment on one of my recent posts saying

“Hey, take a look at this. Sounds like Microsoft is accepting some responsibility for some past issues with SBS. I read all the way through this thing and don’t know if the guy is real, but it’s at least pretty interesting.”

http://sbsguru.spaces.live.com/

Initially i just thought this was spam as the “accepting responsibility for past issues” line seemed a little strange to me but i noticed the link was back to the SBSGuru page. I then received the exact same comment via email

So i went back to the site and re-read all the content and watched the videos

SBS Guru is supposedly one of the developers on the SBS Team and is looking to correct all the “bad posts and emails” they receive about SBS. It’s current focus is on wizards

While this may normally seem like a perfectly good idea for a blog it’s the videos that make me suspicious

He’s a little bit over the top for my liking and the whole thing feels “scripted”

Take a look and let me know what you think

Is this building up to be one great big April fools joke or am i doing the author (Tom?) disservice?

UPDATE:  

Just found this bit of text in the “profile”

“Tom isn’t actually more than one person. In fact, he’s not even one real person. But, I’d like to think that if he was real, he’d be enjoying a nice caffeinated beverage about now and freestyling to the hum of his Small Business Server”

Could someone let me in on the joke please? 🙂

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Andy Parkes is Technical Director at Coventry based IT support company IBIT Solutions. Formerly, coordinator of AMITPRO and Microsoft Partner Area Lead for 2012-2013. He also isn't a fan of describing himself in the third person.

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