Scott Sutfin-Glowski, who joined Microsoft in 2012, is resigning over the company's work with Israel's military.
Scott Sutfin-Glowski, a Microsoft engineer for 13 years, is resigning over the company's work with the Israeli military. "Today, the ceasefire in Gaza finally takes effect after two years of genocide, but the atrocities, human rights abuses, war crimes, apartheid, and occupation continue," he wrote in a message to colleagues.
Demonstrators hold a banner reading "Liberated Zone" during a protest at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, on Aug. 19, 2025. Microsoft Corp. employees rallied at the company's Redmond, Washington, headquarters in an effort to ratchet up pressure on the software maker to stop doing business with Israel over its war in Gaza.engineer is resigning after 13 years at the software giant, claiming the company continues to sell cloud services to the Israeli military and that executives won't discuss the war in Gaza. Scott Sutfin-Glowski, a principal software engineer, informed colleagues at Microsoft on Thursday that this will be his last week at the company.Associated Press article that said the Israeli military had at least 635 Microsoft subscriptions, and he claimed the vast majority of them remain active.on Thursday, citing government officials, that the U.S. is sending roughly 200 troops to Israel to help support the ceasefire deal.said it had stopped providing certain services to a division of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, though it didn't provide specifics. That decision came after Microsoft investigated anfrom The Guardian saying the Israeli Defense Forces' Unit 8200 had built a system for tracking Palestinians' phone calls. Sutfin-Glowski said the company cut off communication systems that allowed employees to bring up their concerns regarding the Israeli military's use of Microsoft products. Outside a building at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on Thursday, employees and community members opened up banners calling on the company to drop ties with Israel, according to a statement from No Azure for Apartheid. The group has been asking Microsoft to listen to the more than 1,500 employees who petitioned the company to endorse a ceasefire. "Today, the ceasefire in Gaza finally takes effect after two years of genocide, but the atrocities, human rights abuses, war crimes, apartheid, and occupation continue," Sutfin-Glowski wrote.
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