Microsoft launches employees to storm its president’s office

Microsoft He said on Thursday that he ended two employees who stormed the office of President Brad Smith earlier this week.

The news comes after seven current and previous employees in Microsoft on Tuesday A contract to protest in the company building In Redmond, Washington, in opposing the alleged Israeli army’s use of the company’s program as part of its invasion of Gaza.

The demonstrators, who followed the NO Azure group to separate the apartheid, obtained an entry to the Smith office and demanded the end of Microsoft its direct and indirect support to Israel.

in mail On Instagram, the company said from Azure for racist interruption that Riki Fameli and Anna Heattle shot by the company.

“Today’s employees were terminated after serious violations of the company’s policies and the rules of our behavior,” Microsoft spokesman said in a statement.

“These incidents are inconsistent with the expectations that we preserve for our employees. The company continues to investigate and fully cooperate with the application of the law regarding these matters,” the statement added.

In the wake of the protests, Smith Claim The demonstrators had prevented people outside the office, planted listening devices in the form of phones, and refused to leave until they were removed by the police.

Any Azure for Apartheid does not define itself as “a movement of Microsoft workers asking Microsoft to end the direct and indirect collusion in the Israeli racist and genocide.”

Guardian Earlier this month, I stated that the Israeli army had used the Microsoft Microsoft infrastructure to store phone calls to the Palestinians, prompting the company to delegate the third -party investigation into whether its technology was used to monitor.

Smith said on Tuesday that the company “will investigate and reach a reality” on how to use services.

According to Smith, no Azur on the apartheid protests on the company’s campus last week, which resulted in 20 detention in one day, did not work in Microsoft.

There is no vision to separate the apartheid on a series of procedures this year, including in Microsoft’s Build a developer conference In the company’s celebration Fifty anniversary. Bloomberg It was reported on Tuesday that the director of Microsoft had contacted the FBI regarding the protests.

Microsoft’s actions come after the technology giant Google Firing 28 employees Last year, after a series of protests against working conditions and the company’s contract with the Israeli and military government of cloud computing and artificial intelligence services. In this case, some employees were able to reach the Thomas Corian office, CEO of the cloud unit of Google.

– Novet in CNBC contributed to this report.