India, May 21 -- Footage of a Microsoft employee disrupting CEO Satya Nadella's keynote speech has been widely circulated online. Joe Lopez, a Microsoft firmware engineer, stood up during the company's Build developer conference in Seattle, Washington while Nadella was onstage.

Lopez interrupted Satya Nadella with a pro-Palestine message. Standing up on his chair, he yelled, "Satya, how about you show how Microsoft is killing Palestinians. How about you show how Israeli war crimes are powered by Azure?"

According to a report in The Verge, Lopez had spent four years working on parts of Microsoft's cloud-computing platform, Azure.

The pro-Palestine protestor was immediately escorted out by security staff at the Seattle conference, but no...