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The confrontation at Microsoft’s Redmond campus in August and the weeks of escalation that followed have turned a previously quiet internal dispute into what may be the most consequential labor story in the U.S. this year: current and former Microsoft employees organized under the banner No...

Microsoft’s decision to terminate four employees after on‑campus protests over the company’s ties to Israel crystallizes a larger, unresolved crisis at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, corporate governance, and worker activism. Background / Overview In late August, demonstrators from a...

Microsoft president Brad Smith’s compact public line — “some of what was reported needs to be tested” — is the latest punctuation in a rapidly escalating crisis for Azure, Microsoft’s relationships with the Israeli security establishment, and the cloud industry’s role in wartime intelligence and...

Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...

Microsoft’s Redmond campus erupted into a high-stakes showdown this month as employee-led protesters occupied public spaces, splashed paint on the company sign, and drew law-enforcement intervention — all over one fundamental allegation: that Microsoft Azure has been used at scale by the Israeli...

Microsoft has opened a formal review into allegations that its cloud and AI technologies were used by Israeli security forces for large‑scale surveillance in Gaza and the West Bank — a development that escalates months of investigative reporting, employee protests, and policy debate about the...

Microsoft has opened an “urgent” external review after investigative reporting alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 used a bespoke environment on Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyse vast volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications — claims that raise immediate questions about cloud...

Microsoft has opened an urgent external review after media investigations alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 used a bespoke area of Microsoft’s Azure cloud to collect and store immense volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications—raising fresh questions about cloud governance, data residency...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud has quietly become the focus of one of the most consequential tech-and-human-rights controversies of the decade after investigative reporting alleged that Israel’s elite signals intelligence unit used a bespoke Azure environment to ingest, store and analyze enormous...