Washington, Aug 27: Software giant Microsoft apologised on Wednesday, Aug 27, for editing out a black man from an advertisement run in Poland.
The ad featured three business people, a white woman, a black man and an Asian man, sitting around a conference table.
The same photo was used by Microsoft for an ad run in Poland but the black man had been edited out of the image and replaced with a white man.
'We apologised, fixed the error and we are looking into how it happened,' said Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spokesman.
On Microsoft's official page on the social network site Twitter, described it as 'a marketing mistake' and offers 'sincere apologies.'
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