During Microsoft's annual developer conference, firmware engineer Joe Lopez interrupted CEO Satya Nadella's keynote with a pro-Palestinian protest, highlighting the company's involvement in enabling Israeli military actions through its cloud platform, Azure. Lopez's actions were supported by a worker-led group, No Azure for Apartheid, which has long protested Microsoft's contracts with the Israeli military. Following the disruption, Lopez sent an all-staff email urging Microsoft to no longer support Israel's actions, emphasizing that the company's reputation could suffer due to public backlash against its complicity in the conflict.
As one of the largest companies in the world, Microsoft has immeasurable power to do the right thing: demand an end to this senseless tragedy, or we will cease our technological support for Israel.
The world has already woken up to our complicity and is turning against us. The boycotts will increase and our image will continue to spiral into disrepair.
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