Software giant Microsoft has issued an apology after it emerged that the company’s Polish arm had altered a promotional image to change the race of one of the people pictured.
In the US, the image featured three employees sitting around a meeting table – one white woman, and two men, one black and one Asian.
When it was used in Poland, however, the advert – which promised Polish businesses the chance to “to boost your employees using the right tools” – had replaced the head of the black worker with a badly super-imposed face of a white man. His one visible hand, however, remained unchanged.
As usual, the expendable demographic is the white male, except in Poland, apparently.
Exit question: How is it that computer giant Microsoft doesn’t have anyone in its employ who can Photoshop better than this.
