Head (geddit) 'shopper. Chief of not being unnecessarily crass. Entire advertising department; you name it - it’s up for grabs.
Microsoft apologises over race-swap gaffe | Technology | guardian.co.uk
I know - it’s kinda low mocking people for things like this. Large organization, slips through the cracks, yadayada. It’s just kinda hard not to…
[The disturbing thing is the guy even looks superimposed in the original photo… :)]
The picture is even more revealing of MS attitudes; the three people in the picture are all looking up to an invisible boss.
This is not the image of a collegiate/collaborative company but of a top-down organisation where people put on false smiles when the boss is around.
Would they be smiling so much otherwise?
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6629/buseysoftthemagicianpor.jpg
Also, they edited the Apple logo from the Macbook that’s on the desktop and the monitor has no cables
I’m not 100% convinced that’s her arm, either.
Oh dear oh dear.
ken_yap
August 26, 2009, 12:25pm
#5
M$ should have responded by putting out a communique saying that “our photos are modelled by dummies; no real people are depicted; we just happened to screw on a different head so that’s why it doesn’t match the hand; so what’s the fuss about?” rotfl!
I have to say the photoshopdisasters blog they link to is freaking hilarious as well. In a kind of frightening way.
PhotoshopDisasters
user
August 26, 2009, 10:16pm
#7
> the monitor has no cables
that is the latest big deal coming with Win7: WirelessMonitor
shsssss…it is secret, don’t tell anyone!
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goldie