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Wed 08 Aug 2009Microsoft faces black-and-white issue
Software giant Microsoft apologised today for altering a photo on its website that changed the race of one of the people shown in the picture.
A photo on the company’s US site shows two men, one Asian and one black, and a white woman seated at a conference room table. But on the website of Microsoft’s Polish business unit, the black man’s head has been replaced with that of a white man. The colour of his hand remains unchanged.
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