While the petition failed to have an impact, a louder protest outside Microsoft's headquarters kickstarted a wave of public activism. Two of the organizers of No Azure for Apartheid - Abdo Mohamed and Hossam Nasr - were fired for disrupting colleagues with "bullhorns and speakers." They've been recruiting Microsoft employees, other tech workers, and community members ever since. The group has since made headlines for interrupting Microsoft executives during a 50th anniversary celebration and at the company's Build developer conference earlier this year.
"Inside, basically it was very cold. The food was pretty bad. Just the condition in general. The fact that over 70 men are in one space, so you don't have privacy whatsoever."
