Microsoft racist?

[rehearser]

Software giant Microsoft has apologised for editing a photo to change a black man's head to that of a white man.

The picture, showing employees sitting around a desk, appeared unaltered on the firm's US website.

But on the website of its Polish business unit the black man's head was replaced with a white face, although the colour of his hands was unchanged.

Microsoft said it had pulled the image and would be investigating who made the changes. It apologised for the gaffe.

The altered image, which also featured an Asian man and a white woman, was quickly circulated online.

Bloggers have had a field day with the story, with some suggesting Microsoft was attempting to please all markets by having a man with both a white face and a black hand.

"The white head and black hand actually symbolise interracial harmony. It is supposed to show that a person can be white and black, old and young at the same time," said one blogger on the Photoshop Disasters blog.

Others have suggested the ethnic mix of the Polish population may have played a part in the decision to change the photo.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8221896.stm

IBTL

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[thelefteyeguy]

it's grrrrr...eat!

[skeletor]

lol!!! KKF Approved

[Reign]

hot

[Ottomaddox]

The worst you can say about this case is that they pandered to local bigotry.
I don't think Microsoft is racist; they will screw over anybody if there's a dollar to be made, market share to be captured, or competitors to be crushed...

[jstaneon]

wow...you must be racist for changing the ad to market towards your target group. Shame on you.

[drowsy]

So what? The City of Toronto is racist too, see

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/b...inclusive.aspx

"City digitally adds black guy to Fun Guide cover to make it more ‘inclusive’".

[ES_Revenge]

ROFL

[drowsy]

Notice how the original image is ucked up too
-- they intentionally put three actors of different races

Every time I see this I just wanna puke on it.

[jstaneon]

I just found out that Pepsi is racist too. They dont have any black or white people in their advertisement in Japan!

[drowsy]

It looks like green people are quite underrepresented in Microsoft ads.

[BornRuff]

Software giant Microsoft has apologised for editing a photo to change a black man's head to that of a white man.

The picture, showing employees sitting around a desk, appeared unaltered on the firm's US website.

But on the website of its Polish business unit the black man's head was replaced with a white face, although the colour of his hands was unchanged.

Microsoft said it had pulled the image and would be investigating who made the changes. It apologised for the gaffe.

The altered image, which also featured an Asian man and a white woman, was quickly circulated online.

Bloggers have had a field day with the story, with some suggesting Microsoft was attempting to please all markets by having a man with both a white face and a black hand.

"The white head and black hand actually symbolise interracial harmony. It is supposed to show that a person can be white and black, old and young at the same time," said one blogger on the Photoshop Disasters blog.

Others have suggested the ethnic mix of the Polish population may have played a part in the decision to change the photo.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8221896.stm

IBTL

Na, just really bad at Photoshop.

[shannn]

The City of Toronto did that with its Fun Guide too
It's posted somewhere in OT

[Quiggie]

Well poland is like 99.9% white so it doesn't make sense to have racially diverse people on their commercials because they wouldn't relate to it. I just don't understand why they didn't edit out the asian guy too?