<p>Microsoft had pasted a white man's head on to a black man's torso in a promotional photo in the Polish version of its official website, the Daily Telegraph reported.<br /><br />The original photo featured three business people, one white, one black and one Asian in a meeting. It was published on Microsoft's main US site, to advertise the company's business productivity software.<br /><br />But in the doctored goof-up, the black man's face was replaced with that of a white model, to appeal to Polish customers, but the original man's one dark hand remained clearly visible.<br /><br />The discrepancy, quickly spotted by surfers was widely distributed on the Internet becoming a butt of jokes among them before it was taken down by Microsoft.<br /><br />Apologising for the racial swap the US technology giant in a message on its official Twitter tweeted, "Marketing site photo mistake, sincere apologies, we're in the process of taking down the image".<br /><br />An official spokesman added, "We are looking into the details of this situation."</p>
<p>Microsoft had pasted a white man's head on to a black man's torso in a promotional photo in the Polish version of its official website, the Daily Telegraph reported.<br /><br />The original photo featured three business people, one white, one black and one Asian in a meeting. It was published on Microsoft's main US site, to advertise the company's business productivity software.<br /><br />But in the doctored goof-up, the black man's face was replaced with that of a white model, to appeal to Polish customers, but the original man's one dark hand remained clearly visible.<br /><br />The discrepancy, quickly spotted by surfers was widely distributed on the Internet becoming a butt of jokes among them before it was taken down by Microsoft.<br /><br />Apologising for the racial swap the US technology giant in a message on its official Twitter tweeted, "Marketing site photo mistake, sincere apologies, we're in the process of taking down the image".<br /><br />An official spokesman added, "We are looking into the details of this situation."</p>