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Microsoft Race-Swap Gaffe:

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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.

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A screenshot from the original U.S version of the advert shows an Asian man, a black man and a white woman seated at the conference table

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In the doctored Polish version the black man's face has been changed - although his hand has been left untouched

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Re: Microsoft Race-Swap Gaffe:

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Moahahhaha those Polish should stick to fixing houses
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The Gunners wrote:Moahahhaha those Polish should stick to fixing houses
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The Gunners wrote:Moahahhaha those Polish should stick to fixing houses
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