How eight pixels cost Microsoft millions

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Microsoft's lack of multicultural savvy cost the Redmond behemoth millions of dollars, according to a company executive.

The software giant has seen its products banned in some of the biggest markets on earth--and it's all because of eight wrongly colored pixels, a dodgy choice of music and a bad English-to-Spanish dictionary.

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"Some of our employees, however bright they may be, have only a hazy idea about the rest of the world," he said.



nice understatement, that!