they forgot to Photoshop the Chinese guy, although... his eyes do look rounder....

...want to use a likeness of Michael Jackson the dead pedophile in their ads? Scum begets scum.

If Microsoft wants its software to be aspirational - but they know that no one in Poland aspires to be black, then haven't they just done the logical thing?

I notice that, in the UK, none of the princesses/duchesses etc have taken black cock in a public way - but in a free and open society you know that some of them must have (as is their right)

How about we implement one standard for all people - rather than picking and choosing when to care, simply because the execution of the project was ham-fisted

Bottom line?

Does Micorsoft have the right to completely free speech and to execute marketing campaigns in the way it believes most logical - or is there no such thing as free speech and private companies need to choose campaigns that won't work as well because people on the other side of the world feel badly.

I'm not venturing a conclusion - just raising the debate point.

America's Got Talent

Macbook

and to add insult to the injury there's a white Macbook on the table. :)
posted by : Emil, 26 August 2009

Not a Macbook. The ports don't match and no fruit embedded on the top. The insult is thet even an apple fanboy can't tell a Dell laptop from a Macbook. All of the hardware in the shot is Dell.

http://www.softsailor.com/news/6658-microsoft-poland-or-the-biggest-racist-photoshop-disaster-ever.html

There.

Nick, why not just steal those images & post them on here? Or at least stick a linq to them in the article?

Can we have some images of this that are bigger than a fucking thumbnail?

Seriously. I can't see shit on that pic in the article.

Maybe they don't understand that most people just suck. If you have self-respect you don't care about others. I'd rather look at people funny and dare them to get tough.

They're stoopid everywhere!

1995 IIRC

<pompous those cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it</pompous

and to add insult to the injury there's a white Macbook on the table. :)

I think this is going too far! :)
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7308/microsoftlocalisation.jpg

Microsoft should have a black CEO to better reflect diversity in America.

I mean, where is the token Jap? What about the Indian? And don't forget the midget. You can't seriously be thinking of discriminating against little people, now, can you? I'm appalled at this lack of sensitivity, and I'm going to complain to the EU right now.

</sarcasm

If there is one thing I hate, it is these "Politically correct" photos that depict several vastly-different races that just so happen to be in the same room together, smiling, and having fun. As if these sorts of thing happen every day. As if work is actually that fun...

I'm fairly sure that Maddox would have something to say about this...