Feb. 17 -- Microsoft is facing some questions about political correctness and fonts this week following the release of a critical Windows update that also happens to include a previously released ...

Microsoft scrambled yesterday to remove a font from its new Office 2003 that includes two swastikas. The icon is part of “Bookshelf Symbol 7,” which includes a number of Asian characters.

To be precise, it was a tiny orange icon. Microsoft worked out an arrangement to use the same symbol that Firefox does to alert people when a Web page makes extra streams of information available ...