microsoft – “we do not like black people”

August 26, 2009

i love this story but i am not surprised. advertising sometimes is not too far off from blatant racism. social profiling and stereotyping is everywhere and in cases like this it sometimes leaks.

microsoft put together an ad that they later decided to make some ethnic (sloppy) changes to. katu says it best:

A photo on the Seattle-based company’s U.S. Web site shows two men, one Asian and one black, and a white woman seated at a conference room table. But on the Web site of Microsoft’s Polish business unit, the black man’s head has been replaced with that of a white man. The color of his hand remains unchanged.

Microsoft Shit

uh bill, can we make the guy in the center less black? maybe try to find a younger whiter guy that looks less wise and more like a smart ass? – not to mention leaving the hand black. if they would have crossed their t’s on this one they would have had the option to say that they turned the white guy black. darshes.

on the flip side of this – i got a new macbook pro recently and it is a battle axe in which i am learning to yield it’s raw power.

Macbook Pro

the important specs:

3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
8GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM – 2X4GB
256GB solid-state drive
MacBook Pro 17-inch Hi-Resolution Antiglare Widescreen Display

now while these specs may mean nothing to most i must mention that after tap dancing with a solid state drive i will never go back. i am already trying to figure out how i can get one in my mac pro as well. there’s no moving parts, no seek time, no weird clicking noises – nothing. just raw speed. photoshop literally takes 1 second to load. add in the 8gb of ram and yourself have a murder machine. oh and i went with the non glossy screen – for i am not a fan. i want to get work done, not stare at candy all day.

and while i like to give microsoft a hard time, i run xp in sync with osx. why? because i can. plus, how else am i going to test crappy browsers that can’t seem to die?

IE6 is over