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Have I stumbled across Microsoft’s next great advertising campaign or am i hopelessly wrong?<\/p>\n

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

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<\/p>\n

Then i got a comment on one of my recent posts saying<\/a><\/p>\n

“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\u2019t know if the guy is real, but it\u2019s at least pretty interesting.”<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/sbsguru.spaces.live.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

So i went back to the site and re-read all the content and watched the videos<\/p>\n

SBS Guru <\/a>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<\/p>\n

While this may normally seem like a perfectly good idea for a blog it’s the videos that make me suspicious<\/p>\n

He’s a little bit over the top for my liking and the whole thing feels “scripted”<\/p>\n

Take a look and let me know what you think<\/p>\n

Is this building up to be one great big April fools joke or am i doing the author (Tom?) disservice?<\/p>\n

UPDATE: <\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just found this bit of text in the “profile”<\/a><\/p>\n

“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 <\/em>nice caffeinated beverage about now and freestyling to the hum of his Small Business Server”<\/em><\/p>\n

Could someone let me in on the joke please? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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