Microsoft's Photoshop faux pas enrages bloggers

LOS ANGELES -- It may not have mattered to Michael JacksonMichael Jackson if you're black or white, but apparently it does to Microsoft. After changing the race of one of the people in a website advertisement, Microsoft is offering an apology to consumers after several blogs brought attention to the misstep.

"We are looking into the details of this situation," Microsoft spokesperson Lou Gellos said in a released statement on Tuesday. "We apologize and are in the process of pulling down the image."

The image on the U.S. website depicted two men (Asian and African-American) and a Caucasian woman sitting at conference room table. On Microsoft's Polish business website, the African-American male's head was replaced with the head of a Caucasian male. (The rest of the photo remained unchanged.)

The controversy sparked a flurry of blog posts about the software giant’s faux pas. Some sites claimed that Microsoft merely engaged in "target marketing" being that Poland is a racially homogeneous country.

PC World blogger David Coursey said that situations like Microsoft's "bad Photoshop use" happen all the time.

"We live in a multicultural business environment that literally spans the globe. My picture isn't likely to appear in an ad aimed at black South Africans, so what?"

Microsoft has since removed the doctored image from their Polish site.