Microsoft Apologizes for Offensive (and Botched) Photoshop Job

I'm still laughing from the original post. I wonder how much saving a few $$$ is ultimately going to cost Microsoft?

Come on now, how stupid do you think we are? They did this for the Poland audience? Yeh, right!! Polish people are not in the last century and don't know what mixed cultures are like; they have many immigrants and others in their country. This was a racist act,and no one wants to own it. Please don't treat Europe as if they are so far behind us...they are, in reality, in front of us in most areas. I lived there for ten years, and am offended that this side of the ocean thinks that side needs to have faces changed around.

It looks as though Ray Milland finally got rid of Rosie Grier's head, and no longer known as "The Head With Two Things," or should that be the other way 'round.

I see they swapped an older man for a younger man...

As funny (and botched) as it is, I don't see anything wrong with it.
We don't have black people in Poland.
Do you think they have white people on ads in let's say India?
This is demographics, not racism.

Who in the world goes around looking for stuff like this? Who cares about some stupid ad anyway.

@ richard.walkus:
Being Polish, I take issue with the characterization of Poland as "racially homogeneous". To this day, there are Jews and Gypsies as well as Africans and Asians living and intermarrying in Poland.
I agree with Barbara above about Europeans being much more racially tolerant. I can recall attending a medical conference in Erlangen (outside of Nuremberg) in 1998 and seeing more interracial couples than I have ever seen in large U.S. cities.

Interesting to note that the Asian Model in the advert was not swapped and yet, the Asian population is similar to black population, abeit growing faster... and although the argument of a more racially homogenious market may be a suitable explaination, this goes to show how far poland is to racial recognition and respect, even on corporate levels.
This, maybe should be a good opportunity foreign companies with operations in Poland to bring in more racially diverse senior management, at least we will start seeing real changes on the ground as regarding perception

Who the F*ck cares? Aren't there starving people in the world?

Anyone realizes that the Asian becomes lighter in color on the Polish ad?

Imagine a world where there is no concept of money. We still grow food, have industries, schools, hospitals, sports, jobs, every facet of modern life and lifestyle but everything is free. Govt would be there to ration food to people. Govt would build beautiful housing for all people of the country free. I think all humans should be born qith equal rights in this world and not inherently born rich or poor. It is money which creates the discrimination and all subsequent evils and problems. Basic need is food - if that is met, what is the need for fighting to earn a living. It is strange even being supposedly the most intelligent species, we produce enuf food to feed our world population but the have created a legacy of rights and entitlement to property of mother earth which is casuing majority of us suffering and living inferior lives than others. Its not right and its high time we demand our rights of equality. Except snakes, I think humans are the only species that are so hapless as to kill one of their own. In an equal world, such scenarios would be rare. Social benefits are innumerable. If we abolish concept of money, then only will we be able to live truly free lives, and not chained at birth by the evil design of predecessors.

Whoever thinks this is a racist act needs to seriously get a life or go off yourself.....

I think that racism is kept alive when we are paying attention to this or that race. I never noticed the color of the skin of Collin Powell, or that Condoleezza Rice was a woman who happens to be black. I only noticed that they are distinguished and accomplished citizens of the United States. My take on this race controversy is: nothing; judge people by their personal values.

I must disagree with Barbara and Arthur. I am an American living in Hungary. Every time I see an advertisement with non-Caucasians, my first thought is that it was not an advertisement made for this market, but for the international market. In a small country like Hungary, it seems as though an advertisement made for the local market resonates differently than one made for the international market and then "localized". Without making a judgment about which is better (I am not a marketing person), it is different, and it is not simply a racial question.