Microsoft flips off Apple and adds a middle finger emoji

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Tricia Gilbride
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Microsoft has made an addition that will please pissed off people everywhere.

According to Emojipedia, the Windows 10 update due in mid-2015 will include a middle finger emoji at long last -- in all skin tones.

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The middle finger emoji was approved by Unicode, the computer industry standard responsible for emoji (and thus, every human emotion), in 2014, but Microsoft is the first company to embrace the lewd gesture as part of its emoji keyboard.

The design only loosely resembles an actual hand flipping the bird, but it's a start.

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Racially diverse emoji will also be included in the update, but Microsoft's default skin tone will be gray instead of Apple's bright Simpsons yellow.

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Windows 10 will also include a few other changes to give emoji more cross-platform consistency. Most importantly, the "information desk" emoji will also be updated to resemble Apple's version, but Windows 10 takes the sass a step further by adding a wink.

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