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Microsoft’s announcement of an “urgent” external investigation into allegations that Israel’s Unit 8200 used Azure to store and process recordings of millions of Palestinian phone calls crystallizes a larger, underappreciated shift: the world’s leading cloud providers are not just vendors — they...

Microsoft’s Redmond campus erupted this week after a small group of protesters — including two current employees — forced their way into the executive suite and briefly occupied the office of company vice chair and president Brad Smith, an escalation that ended in arrests and immediate...

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 president doubled down on a promise to investigate the company’s ties to Israel because a cascade of investigative reporting, a forceful United Nations inquiry, escalating employee activism, investor pressure and fresh allegations about large-scale use of Microsoft Azure by Israeli...

Microsoft employees have erected a sustained sit‑in on the company’s Redmond campus, transforming a simmering internal dispute over Israel‑linked contracts into a high‑visibility standoff that raises fundamental questions about cloud ethics, corporate accountability, and the limits of vendor...

Chromebooks don’t use a Windows key or a traditional Print Screen button, but capturing your screen is still fast and flexible — whether you prefer a single keypress, the on-screen Screen Capture tool, voice control, an external keyboard, or a browser extension. This guide consolidates every...

Microsoft’s cloud business is at the center of a fraught ethical, legal and commercial storm after new reporting tied Azure to intelligence workloads used by Israel’s military, forcing a reckoning over what cloud providers can — and should — do when sovereign customers appear to repurpose...

For decades, Microsoft has cultivated an image as the ethical giant of big tech, blending global dominance with carefully curated principles around diversity, accessibility, and progressive environmental pledges. But in the swirling controversy over the Gaza conflict, these reputational polishes...

In late June, a United Nations report delivered a seismic indictment of three of the world’s most powerful technology companies—Google, Amazon, and Microsoft—asserting that their cloud and AI platforms have made them complicit in what the report characterizes as genocide in Gaza. This...

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, was midway through his keynote address at the renowned Microsoft Build developer conference when the unexpected occurred—his presentation was disrupted by a protester demanding Palestinian rights. The incident, which swiftly drew widespread attention online, not...

In an era where technology giants stand at the center of geopolitical storms, Microsoft has come under intense scrutiny following allegations that its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services have played a role in the ongoing conflict in Gaza. As accusations and counterclaims...