{"id":9492,"date":"2015-05-13T08:01:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T12:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=9492"},"modified":"2015-05-13T08:01:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T12:01:28","slug":"microsoft-flips-us-the-bird-set-to-introduce-new-offensive-emojis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/microsoft-flips-us-the-bird-set-to-introduce-new-offensive-emojis\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Flips Us the Bird: Set to Introduce New Offensive Emojis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft Windows 10 Leak Reveals New Offensive Emojis<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n
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Article from Forbes Technology<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Have you heard? Microsoft<\/a> Microsoft<\/a><\/span><\/span> has its mojo back<\/a>. UnderSatya Nadella<\/a> the company is now radical, cool and determined to take risks<\/a>. Apparently even with its emoji\u2026<\/p>\n

This news comes from the wonderfully dedicated Emojipedia Blog<\/a>. This site, which\u00a0digs through all major operating systems for new emoji, has found Windows 10 contains the first major Microsoft emoji updates in nearly two years \u2013 and some choices are rather controversial.<\/p>\n

The Controversial Inclusion<\/b><\/p>\n

The headline maker is Windows 10\u2019s inclusion of the offensive new \u2018middle finger emoji\u2019, whose meaning couldn\u2019t be clearer<\/a><\/span> . This emoji was actually approved as part of\u00a0Unicode 7<\/a>\u00a0(an open computing standard) back in mid-2014, but unsurprisingly\u00a0Apple<\/a> Apple<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0has steered clear and Windows 10 is the first major OS to adopt it.<\/p>\n

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New Windows 10 \u2018Middle Finger\u2019 emoji \u2013 image credit Emojipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While it may offend some, the middle finger emoji is at least racially diverse and it is included in five new Windows 10 emoji skin tone options<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Racially diversion middle finger emoji! \u2013 image credit Emojipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Read more \u2013 Microsoft Is The New Google, Google Is The Old Microsoft<\/a><\/p>\n

The Controversial Exclusions<\/b><\/p>\n

While the inclusion of the middle finger emoji may prove controversial, what Microsoft has chosen to omit has offended some even more: no same sex couples.<\/p>\n

Same sex couples emoji have also been approved by Unicode 7 and were consequently adopted by Apple<\/a> in iOS 8.3, but so far they remain absent from Windows 10. Of course there is no legal deadline for their inclusion and it may be they will appear at a later date. Still it feels like Microsoft could have avoided making this a talking point.<\/p>\n

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iOS emoji\u2019s added racial diversity and same sex couples \u2013 image credit Forbes\u2019 Amit Chowdry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Racially Diverse Options \u2013 Grey Defaults<\/b><\/p>\n

In a further interesting decision Microsoft also now displays grey-skinned people as a race-neutral default. This is inline with Unicode\u2019s recommendation that default skin tones should be non-human in appearance, though grey is something of an odd choice and looks rather dull (and dead?).<\/p>\n

Then again the more common bright yellow default picked by Apple and Google<\/a> Google<\/a><\/span><\/span> has also come in for criticism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Microsoft default emoji skin tones are now grey \u2013 image credit Emojipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally Microsoft has also revealed all new and updated emojis\u2026\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest of this article at Forbes<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft Windows 10 Leak Reveals New Offensive Emojis Article from Forbes Technology Have you heard? Microsoft Microsoft has its mojo back. UnderSatya Nadella the company is now radical, cool and determined to take risks. Apparently even with its emoji\u2026 This news comes from the wonderfully dedicated Emojipedia Blog. This site, which\u00a0digs through all major operating systems for new\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1426,1674],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9493,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions\/9493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}