Software giant Microsoft has apologised for editing a photo to change a black man’s head to that of a white man.<\/p>\n
The picture, showing employees sitting around a desk, appeared unaltered on the firm’s US website.<\/p>\n
But on the website of its Polish business unit the black man’s head was replaced with a white face, although the colour of his hands was unchanged.<\/p>\n
Microsoft said it had pulled the image and would be investigating who made the changes. It apologised for the gaffe.<\/p>\n
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The altered image, which also featured an Asian man and a white woman, was quickly circulated online.<\/p>\n
Bloggers have had a field day with the story, with some suggesting Microsoft was attempting to please all markets by having a man with both a white face and a black hand.<\/p>\n
“The white head and black hand actually symbolise interracial harmony. It is supposed to show that a person can be white and black, old and young at the same time,” said one blogger on the Photoshop Disasters blog.<\/p>\n
Others have suggested the ethnic make-up of the Polish population, which is predominantly white, may have played a part in the decision to change the photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n