There's a worldwide recession. Microsoft can't afford to shoot a new photo.

Actually, I think it's called demographics. Poland has about 3% minorities.

Now if a Polish company exchanged a white head for a black one in advertising for their products in the US would anyone even notice?



Microsoft Edits Black Man Out of Photo, Apologizes

LOS ANGELES — 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.

The photo editing sparked criticism online. Some bloggers said Poland's ethnic homogeneity may have played a role in changing the photo.

"We are looking into the details of this situation," Microsoft spokesperson Lou Gellos said in a statement Tuesday. "We apologize and are in the process of pulling down the image."

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