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Paddypower takes bets on Microsoft ad race line-up

What are the odds?

28 August 2009 9:42 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

An online bookmakers is taking bets on the race of the people Microsoft will chose to front its Office 2010 print advertising campaign.

This follows the software company's well-publicised PR disaster that saw a black man Photoshopped out of an ad in favour of a white man, a move it has since apologised for.

Paddypower is offering different odds for different combinations of races, based on what it thought to be the most and least likely to appear.

At the moment white and Asian will get you the best return at 12/1, while white only is 4/1 and the ultimate combo of white, Afro-American and Asian is set at just 11/10.

Via: pcpro.co.uk

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