Microsoft and Microsoft Poland

On August 26 2009 06:59 Zelniq wrote:
LOL poland photoshopped that white guy in

On August 26 2009 11:13 Archaic wrote:
AHHH I MISSED IT!!!
EDIT: Looking at the engadget page, if you look really closely at the hand, you can see that it was originally black, with part of it photoshopped to look white.

On August 26 2009 10:26 miseiler wrote:
Really guys? This isn't old news by now?

You can still see them at engadget's newsitem: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/microsoft-sucks-at-photoshop/

Or check out the rocking gif animation: http://image.innealtoir.com/images/dude.gif

Or the ytmnd... http://microlove.ytmnd.com/

On August 26 2009 10:26 miseiler wrote:
Really guys? This isn't old news by now?

You can still see them at engadget's newsitem: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/microsoft-sucks-at-photoshop/

Or check out the rocking gif animation: http://image.innealtoir.com/images/dude.gif

Or the ytmnd... http://microlove.ytmnd.com/

On August 26 2009 22:24 zuqbu wrote:
mockups incoming^^

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7308/microsoftlocalisation.jpg

On August 26 2009 22:24 zuqbu wrote:
mockups incoming^^

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7308/microsoftlocalisation.jpg

"The white head and black hand actually symbolise interracial harmony. It is supposed to show that a person can be white and black, old and young at the same time," said one blogger on the Photoshop Disasters blog.

On August 26 2009 21:41 jello_biafra wrote:
I read the first 3 pages thinking "what the hell are they talking about?" but then the link on page 3 showed what had happened lol

On August 26 2009 21:07 iCCup.deL wrote:
Another:

http://www.umlub.pl/
http://www.umlub.pl/index2.html

On August 27 2009 05:19 {88}iNcontroL wrote:


So apparently it is well accepted that Poland is incredibly racist rofl

On August 26 2009 11:49 blue_arrow wrote:


actually, i don't think they photoshopped the hand at all... that's prbly just the shadow from the sleeve

On August 27 2009 05:19 {88}iNcontroL wrote:


So apparently it is well accepted that Poland is incredibly racist rofl

On August 27 2009 05:19 {88}iNcontroL wrote:


So apparently it is well accepted that Poland is incredibly racist rofl

On August 26 2009 21:07 iCCup.deL wrote:
Unfortunately most of you dont understand marketing; that's why you consider this racist, think that Iraq had weapons off mass destruction and so on.

Actually I expected you to comment here Incontrol, you are one of the most ignorant people on this site. Typical fat american who doesnt understand the world around him and can be mislead by crappy marketing.

On August 26 2009 10:26 miseiler wrote:
Really guys? This isn't old news by now?

You can still see them at engadget's newsitem: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/microsoft-sucks-at-photoshop/

Or check out the rocking gif animation: http://image.innealtoir.com/images/dude.gif

Or the ytmnd... http://microlove.ytmnd.com/

On August 28 2009 16:33 closed wrote:


Actually someone as stupid as you wont understand that this is just marketing.
There are only few thousand black people there, thus they photoshopped him away because:
a) it looks as if the marketing division did not bother to prepare own materials and just copied them from the parent website in the US (aka we dont give a damn about you dear consumer)
b) this is unrealistic, there are no black programmers in Poland, I bet there are few black programmers in US too
c) putting a black person to every commercial is just inverted racism

That umlub website is a medical university which also offers cheap studies for foreigners. No offense, but a white person is probably richer thus will probably choose some better university. Consequenty they photoshopped a black dude there to promote it among poor americans.

I worked at a BIG company, that happens to have a famous black person in nearly all their ads. These ads dont work not, only in Poand. But also in Germany, Czech Republic and China (guess what, there are few black people in China too). It might be hard for you to understand, but there are countries where there are barely any black people.

*there were few companies that woud show dubbed ads that failed miserably

Unfortunately most of you dont understand marketing; that's why you consider this racist, think that Iraq had weapons off mass destruction and so on.

Actually I expected you to comment here Incontrol, you are one of the most ignorant people on this site. Typical fat american who doesnt understand the world around him and can be mislead by crappy marketing.

On August 30 2009 03:58 coltrane wrote:



I understand your point. BUT
You cant judge the wellthy by the race. There is where you fail most, makes me think you are a little racist, or directly fascist. And of course classist.

If they are concerned about the target why didnt they took another picture? Nobody whould be laughing or bothering if they actually took another picture. And there is a white woman, an asian guy and a black man. That picture surely has a message, photoshoping any of them out is a big capital FAIL

Doesnt matter if there are few or many black, or chinesse, or latin or any race doing any job. We all could do any job, and hiding that is being racist. We really need to stop doing things like that.

I agree with you that putting a black man on every add is a way of racism too.