27th Aug, 2009

Marketing Decapitation In Poland: Asians Ok, Blacks Maybe Not

TECH CRUNCH
MICHAEL ARRINGTON
25 AUG 09

A reader sent in links to two identical Microsoft marketing sites. One is a standard U.S./English version, the other in Polish.

The image is identical, except Microsoft has removed the head of the black man in the U.S. version and photoshopped in a white guy’s head instead. The Asian man and white woman made the cut to the Polish site unscathed. Clicking back and forth between the two pages is actually kind of creepy.

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