BBC: Microsoft in web photo racism row

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Or, what I find more likely, is that the marketing dept ordered the change because there aren't that many black men in Poland and a white guy in the picture would help the Polish people to identify easier. They never anticipated the backlash probably

Yup, almost certainly a commercial decision based on sound demographic research..

To accuse a large corporation of racism is as silly as accusing it of having any moral or ethical sense at all.