India, April 7 -- Tech giant Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebrations at the company's headquarters in Washington's Redmond last week were disrupted by pro-Palestinian protests. In both cases, voices were raised by Microsoft's own employees.

Both the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and former CEO Steve Ballmer were present in the audience when the protest began as the company's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman presented product updates and a long-term vision for the tech giant's artificial intelligence assistant.

In the first incident, an employee identified as Ibtihal Aboussad shouted, "Mustafa, shame on you". She walked towards the stage and further said, "You claim that you care about using AI for good, but Microsoft sells AI weapons to th...