Microsoft Poland Empowers White People

In an absolutely astonishing move Microsoft's Polish subsidiary decided to do some photoshopping on its Business Productivity Infrastructure page to tailor it to the Polish market. Here you can see the U.S. original. In one of the least sensitive moves this year, the Polish subsidiary decided that black people in Poland do not need to be empowered, so here you can see what its version of that page looked like for a few hours today. As you can see from the current version on the Polish site, someone with a bit more human sensitivity than a teaspoon, and an I.Q. that is at least room temperature (celsius), decided to fix it. This evening Microsoft empowers everyone equally - even in Poland.

Photoshop Disasters has a very good before and after picture too.

Published Tue, Aug 25 2009 10:53 PM by jesper
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# LZ said on 26 August, 2009 03:35 AM

It appears all the sites now look the same. Do you have before/after screenshots?

# Alun Jones said on 26 August, 2009 07:59 AM

It'll be funny if it turns out that this was just "Jimmy's attempt to get his face on a Microsoft web site", and it was just random that he pasted himself over the black guy.

Then again, there's no one's face in that picture that "Jimmy" couldn't have caused furore by pasting his face over.

# Marcin said on 26 August, 2009 01:23 PM

And??  There's just not that many black people in Poland.