Microsoft Apoligizes For Altering Photo

LOS ANGELES, Calif.- Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for changing the race of one of the people shown in a picture on their web site.

A photo on the company’s U.S. Web site shows two men, one Asian, one black, and one white woman at a conference room table. In contrast, Microsoft’s Polish Web site shows the same photo except for the fact that the black man’s head has been replaced with a white man’s. The color of his hand remained the same.

Microsoft apologized for pulling the image from its site even though critics speculate that Poland’s ethnic homogeneity may have inspired the change.