Microsoft sucks at Photoshop
By Laura June 
posted August 25th 2009 3:47PM
posted August 25th 2009 3:47PM
Officially.
Update: Microsoft tells CNET, "We are looking into the details of this situation. We apologize and are in the process of pulling down the [Polish] image."
Update 2: And... it's down. The un-shopped image is now up on the Polish site, although whatever harried graphics monkey that got the call to fix it didn't do so well lining up the text box. At least that's one mistake that won't get you fired though, right?
[Thanks, David and Matt W]
Read - Microsoft's English site
Read - Microsoft's Polish site
Update: Microsoft tells CNET, "We are looking into the details of this situation. We apologize and are in the process of pulling down the [Polish] image."
Update 2: And... it's down. The un-shopped image is now up on the Polish site, although whatever harried graphics monkey that got the call to fix it didn't do so well lining up the text box. At least that's one mistake that won't get you fired though, right?
[Thanks, David and Matt W]
Read - Microsoft's English site
Read - Microsoft's Polish site
Whatever it takes to make an extra buck. When will they learn it's about the software. Real stupid.
holy shit lol.
"Hi, I'm a PC..." "and I'm a black"
I felt the true irony is the black man using a white macbook... the black macbook would have been the obvious go to.
But whatev, he's prolly a PC anyway.
If you use a mac you can change from black to white!
much love to mj
Truth is stranger than fiction.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38641
So is this "Black Guy Photoshopped OUT?"
If I were that black dude, i'd be pretty damn pissed to get chopped out for john ritter
im just sad to see everyone here bashing poland, how do you know if a polak (im polish, as in i speak it, so i can say this) photoshoped this pic?
for all we know, it could have been done in redmont, then sent to poland... sheesh
Can you tell where this has been photoshopped?
http://img402.imageshack.us/i/microsoftlocalisation.jpg/
@OutbreakMonkey
I think I pee'd my pants a little I was laughing so hard
I was living at in Ames, IA when The Onion article came out. UW Madison actually did get busted for photoshopping a person of color into their promotional materials just a few months after The Onion's article was published.
My neck hurts just looking at it!
Was watching Matrix earlier, the guy who's been photo-shopped looks like an civilian morphing into an agent. ;)
Photoshop??? Everyone knows MS always uses Paint!
An I'm pretty sure it's a MacBook he's holding too!
This will really make your neck hurt: open both sites in tabs then switch back and forth really fast. Hilarious!
Sorry to post-jack, but how in the hell did that first poster at the top, have an inline post, as if he was replying to someone? or mayube IE7 is being deceptive...@.@
@professorkaos: It was reported/deleted'/ or the engadget comment system blew up.
It looks fine to me. I never would have noticed.
i believe she's pressing Ctrl + Alt + Delete
I think there's an Art Director whose head will be as awkwardly flipped as this guy's pshop when his/her superior comes back from vacations.
Aw, and priceless: the light in the opposite way, I mean... that's just... ah... well... I can't talk right now... so sad.
@trappedinameeting
I opened them in their own window and ctrl + tabbed them to the music I'm listening to right now. It was awesome.
THAT....IS....HILARIOUS!
No one, I repeat, NO ONE is that excited when I run a Powerpoint.
I be afraid for my sanity if they were.
White face black hand, albino?
Maybe they don't want to false advertise, probably no blacks in Poland.
The girl got one of those windows' blue screen of death on the monitor facing her, that's why she has to bend her neck all the way to the back.
hahaha, that is a mac!! that photoshop is terrible aswell haha
Even the mouse run away! ^_^
The title should have ben:
"Microsoft sucks ALSO at photoshop"
Jeez that poor polish freak looks like he's got one of the worst cases of scoliosis on record.
Capability is funkje!!
Maybe the poles aren't so bad after all
Watch the gifs
Actually, she's probably wondering why the projector doesn't work. Is it on the wrong input? Is Windows not responding to Fn + F8? Maybe the screen keeps rolling up. What this picture doesn't show you is the next scene where everyone gathers around her monitor only to find another blue screen.
http://image.innealtoir.com/images/dude.gif
Keep rocking, microsoft man.
I LOL'd, out loud.
Something was apparently lost in the translation.
So... the Polish don't have any blacks in their country? Or what the hell was this supposed to mean? I don't get the need for such a really BAD Photoshop work!
WHO DID THIS NONSENSE?! I wouldn't pay for it... Look at the window frame (behind his head) for example, it's totally OFF! o_O
http://microlove.ytmnd.com/ is possibly awesome or evil, by the way. Depends on whether you like Haddaway.
How the hell did everyone got high ranked? is this thing borken again?
MICROSOFT + PHOTOSHOP = FAIL! This is insulting to both people of color as well as Polish people.
http://i25.tinypic.com/25koa4y.gif
@Eddy Munn
I think the point is that Windows runs on Macs as well. Microsoft does the lion's share of its profitable business in software, so I don't see how having Windows on Macs is a bad thing. Even if they are only running Office...it's still money in the bank.
These guys necks hurt even more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOjbfW-rX4s
The woman just got off the phone with tech support for her monitor not working. The first thing they ask - "is it plugged in?" which she promptly slaps her forehead and laughs and looks away.
memes galore!
I demand party hard!!
Kashyyyk localisation: http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7308/microsoftlocalisation.jpg ???
...normally when you do a presentation you wouldn't have the same screen on both the computer and the projector too, so unless the screen is broken she doesn't need to turn around... ...or is her phone a laser pointer!?
HAHA! They've already fixed it and apologiesed! :D
Apparently, Poland still has Asians, though.
haha. even the hand is from the original!
Which one is the "original"?