Microsoft Edits Black Man Out of Photo, Apologizes – FOXNews.com — This is too funny. But there is no real explanation for this gaffe.
Software giant Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for altering a photo on its Web site to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture.A photo on the Seattle-based company’s U.S. Web site shows two men, one Asian and one black, and a white woman seated at a conference room table. But on the Web site of Microsoft’s Polish business unit, the black man’s head has been replaced with that of a white man. The color of his hand remains unchanged.
“But there is no real explanation for this gaffe.” Poland John. Poland.
They’re sorry they got caught I’ll bet. Microsoft marketing and PR machine does it again. There more clowns down there than Cirque du Soleil.
Good lord, Ted Kennnedy is dead.
#3 – Hugh Ripper
Let’s replace the white guy’s head with Ted’s.
Now that’s just messed up.
They should have used Photoshop not MS Paint…look at what a horrible job they did. His head placement looks way off.
By the way, is that Alan Colmes’ head?
They’ve fixed it on the live sites now… however the Aussie version is still showing a localised photo-chop:
Slow news day ?
@ TooManyPuppies
What is that you trying to insinuate? Please do explain.
# 8 MPL
Presumably the insinuation is that Polish people either do not relate to black people or do not like them.
# 1 TooManyPuppies
Correct me if I am in error.
The one on the left is totally shopped. I can tell by the pixels, and by seeing a few shops in my day.
My guess is that version with the white guy is the original and they had to shop the black guy in for photo to pass muster in the U.S.
both heads look wrong if you look at it right.. MS is just so lame some times
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Kinda looks like Mitt Romney…
They’ve been commenting on it on the photoshop disasters blog.
most likely a young marketing person, though who knows.
Take a look at the hand. It looks like the black man has a white skin glove.
Is this a Polish joke?
It’s not really surprising.
It’s quite unusual to meet black person in Poland, so having one on ads is also quite unusual.
It’s like shouting, hey we’re foreigners. We make software possibly in language you will not understand.
You could call it l10n.
“Empower your people with the IT tools they need.” /// Ha, Ha. FTC should charge MS with systematic racial discrimination/Hostile Environment and require them to advertise: “Empower your people with Basic Human Rights and Dignity.”
So happy to be White, and yet the world still sucks. Down stream pollution only gets worse.
I don’t quite understand why they should apologize. There are not so much “African-Polish” guys in Poland.
Why any situation with non-caucasian people is automatically mega-bad?
PS: Probably the should have make another photo session, because there are not much of “Asian-Polish” either.
I don’t care who you are – that’s funny.