Microsoft's cultural blunders

Posted by ryan at 02:07 PM in computers , humor , software . | 1 Comments

This SF Gate article lists some (often humorous) occasions where Microsoft has put their foot in their mouth.

When coloring in 800,000 pixels on a map of India, Microsoft colored eight of them a different shade of green to represent the disputed Kashmiri territory. The difference in greens meant Kashmir was shown as non-Indian, and the product was promptly banned in India.
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Microsoft has also managed to upset women and entire countries. A Spanish- language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation.