India, May 23 -- Microsoft has fired the employee who interrupted a speech by CEO Satya Nadella at the annual Build developer conference in Seattle. Software engineer Joe Lopez shouted during the event to protest against the company supplying technology to the Israeli military for its war in Gaza.

In the opening minutes of the annual conference, Joe can be heard shouting "Satya, how about you show how Microsoft is killing Palestinians. How about you show how Israeli war crimes are powered by Azure?" at Nadella, after which he was escorted out of the room.

Lopez later sent a mass email to colleagues disputing the company's claims about how its Azure cloud computing platform is used in Gaza. Lopez's outburst was the first of several other...