Microsoft Apologizes For Racist Photos

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msft-black2What’s the difference between the first and the second picture?  See the black guy in the first picture?  Notice how he suddenly becomes a white guy in the second picture?

Whoever designed the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure superimposed a white person’s head onto the black guy’s body in the Polish version of the same website.

Why would they do that?  Perhaps this is because Poland has a very small population of people with African origin.  But to superimpose the body of an African man with that of a Caucasian male just seems racially awkward.  Regardless, Microsoft apologized for the mishap.

“We are looking into the details of this situation,” stated a Microsoft representative in an interview with CNET News. “We apologize and are in the process of pulling down the image.”

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