Microsoft’s recent confrontation with employee activists over its business dealings with the Israeli military has burst into the tech industry’s spotlight, raising urgent questions about the ethical limits of corporate technology and the responsibilities of workers entangled in global conflict...
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A cavernous hush settled over the Great Hall in Seattle as Microsoft’s luminaries gathered to honor five decades of invention, determination, and—most recently—controversy. If ever an occasion was destined for triumphant nostalgia, this was it. Yet the mood was anything but celebratory. The...
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