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Software giant Microsoft has apologised for editing a photo to change a black man’s head to that of a white man.
The picture, showing employees sitting around a desk, appeared unaltered on the firm’s US website.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks during a forum on the future of computing in Cologne, western Germany, Friday, April 24, 2009. Ballmer said Friday the computer software giant expects to have to deal with a weak economy for at least several years. The..
