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Revenue of $90.0 billion for the quarter ended 30 June 2026, up 18%, with operating income of $40.6 billion. Azure passed $100 billion of annual revenue for the first time, growing 41% over the year and 43% in the quarter. Full-year revenue was more than $331 billion. Establishes that the campaign has cost Microsoft staff, litigation and standing rather than money, so divestment arguments should be framed as exclusion on principle.

Microsoft's own final report on the matter. It records that it retained the law firm Covington & Burling to investigate the Guardian's reporting of 6 August 2025, that the investigation found evidence supporting elements of it including Israeli Ministry of Defense consumption of Azure storage in the Netherlands and use of AI services, and that Microsoft ceased and disabled specified Ministry subscriptions and services. It states that Microsoft continues to provide the Ministry with 'software, professional services, Azure cloud services, and Azure AI services, including language translation', and works with the Israeli government to protect its national cyberspace. A footnote discloses 'limited emergency support to the Israeli government in the weeks following October 7, 2023, to help rescue hostages'. Microsoft did not access the Ministry's content at any point, and lists five governance changes it will make. The document does not publish the investigation findings themselves.

Microsoft workers and supporters disrupted the company's flagship developer conference on 2 and 3 June 2026, with banners reading 'Microsoft powers genocide' and an aircraft circling the venue. The campaign, which has run since 2024, produced the vigil, the office occupation and the keynote interruption that preceded the September 2025 decision, and it continues to demand that Microsoft end all contracts with the Israeli military and government.

Alon Haimovich left as country general manager of Microsoft Israel on 31 May 2026 after four years, with managers from the local governance division. Globes reported that the investigation examined whether Microsoft Israel had been sufficiently transparent with headquarters about how the defence ministry was actually using Microsoft systems, and that headquarters was concerned Unit 8200 might not be an isolated case. The same reporting records that the Israeli defence ministry wants to renew its Microsoft contract at the end of 2026 at a smaller scale, its computing units having moved large parts of their cloud infrastructure to Amazon and Google.

The Israeli research centre lists Microsoft under settlement enterprise, services to the settlements, population control, specialised equipment and services, and the wall and checkpoints. It records Azure cloud services maintaining the Israeli military's 'Rolling Stone' system, which manages the Palestinian population registry and monitors movement through checkpoints in the West Bank and Gaza; Azure hosting the Israeli Civil Administration's al-Munaseq permit application, which requires Palestinian applicants to surrender device identifiers, location, camera and file access; free software for Ariel University in the settlement of Ariel; work with the education department of the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim; and cloud and licensing contracts with the Israel Police and the Israel Prison Service. The page states the information is valid until 06/01/2026.

The coalition that coordinates the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions movement names Microsoft a priority target. Its ask is targeted rather than blanket: 'pressure on Microsoft wherever possible when reasonable alternatives exist, including boycotting Microsoft's Xbox and gaming, cutting institutional contracts with Microsoft and divesting from the company'. The page records more than 223,000 letters sent to Microsoft executives and more than 2,100 signatures on the workers' petition.

Proposal 9 at the annual meeting of 5 December 2025, filed by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary with around sixty co-filers holding more than $80 million of stock, asked Microsoft to report on the effectiveness of its human rights due diligence, specifically whether it can tell when military customers misuse its AI and cloud services. It won more than 26% of votes cast against a board recommendation to vote against, with the proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services in support and Glass Lewis opposed. No shareholder proposal carried.

A complaint filed on behalf of Palestinian residents of Gaza and the occupied West Bank, and of EU citizens and residents communicating with them. It alleges that Microsoft unlawfully processed their personal data in the European Union, enabling Unit 8200 to intercept and store Palestinian phone calls at mass scale; that Azure hosts critical components of the al-Munaseq system through which Israel controls Palestinian movement; and that Microsoft then facilitated the transfer of the intercepted calls out of EU servers to Israel, obscuring evidence before an investigation could begin. It asks the Commission to use its full powers to halt the processing. The Commission confirmed the complaint is under assessment. Ireland is Microsoft's lead data protection regulator in the EU.

A letter from the Abolitionist Law Center, Avaaz Foundation, European Legal Support Center, SOMO, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Ekō and the Global Legal Action Network. It warns that Microsoft's provision of cloud technology, artificial intelligence and data processing to the Israeli military, intelligence and government 'opens your company up to civil and criminal liability for aiding and abetting, contributing to, or otherwise being complicit in Israel's commission of atrocity crimes'. It sets out a separate data protection case: that processing intercepted Palestinian communications in Dutch and Irish data centres breached the General Data Protection Regulation, for which fines reach 4% of worldwide annual turnover. It asks Microsoft to terminate the services concerned, commission an independent investigation and provide restitution.

Leaked Israeli finance ministry documents, including a finalised version of the Project Nimbus contract, show that the winning suppliers may not restrict which arms of the Israeli government use their services, nor suspend access even for breaches of their own terms. The same reporting records that Microsoft bid for that tender, refused some of Israel's demands and lost it. This is why Microsoft could enforce its acceptable use policy against an Israeli military customer and its two competitors say they cannot.

A joint letter signed by 7amleh, The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, the Palestinian digital rights organisation, with five others. It asks Microsoft to say what further steps will suspend business with Israeli military entities linked to abuses, to publish the full findings of its review including which entities were examined, to disclose any restrictions applied to AI services used by the Israeli military, and to determine how to provide 'effective remedy, including reparations, to Palestinians affected'. The demand against which Microsoft's June 2026 summary should be read.

Human Rights Watch said Microsoft had taken an important first step but must investigate every contract with Israeli authorities, having itself found that those authorities carried out ethnic cleansing, war crimes, crimes against humanity including extermination, apartheid and persecution, and acts of genocide.

Coverage of the September 2025 decision, recording that services were withdrawn from one unit within the Ministry of Defense and that a Microsoft spokesperson said the vast majority of the company's contract with the Israeli military remained intact. The correction to make wherever the withdrawal is described as a termination.

Brad Smith's announcement that Microsoft had 'ceased and disabled specified IMOD subscriptions and their services, including their use of specific cloud storage and AI services and technologies' after the review found evidence supporting elements of the Guardian's reporting. He states two guiding principles: 'we do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians', and that Microsoft respects customer privacy, having accessed no Ministry content. The post adds that the decision 'does not impact the important work that Microsoft continues to do to protect the cybersecurity of Israel and other countries in the Middle East'. The precedent to cite, and the limits of it, in the company's own words.

Amnesty welcomed the decision as a moment for corporate reckoning and called on Microsoft to investigate all its contracts, sales and transfers of surveillance, artificial intelligence and related equipment to Israel, and to disclose what it finds. The clearest statement of the gap between what Microsoft did and what was asked of it.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded on reasonable grounds that Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces have committed and are continuing to commit acts of genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, that they have and continue to have genocidal intent, and that the State of Israel bears responsibility for the failure to prevent genocide, the commission of genocide and the failure to punish genocide. The analysis covers Gaza from 7 October 2023 to 31 July 2025.

Anna Hattle and Riki Fameli were dismissed after a sit-in at Brad Smith's office in August 2025; Nisreen Jaradat and Julius Shan were dismissed over related protests. Police arrested eighteen people at worker-led protests at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters that month. Microsoft had already dismissed Abdo Mohamed and Hossam Nasr in October 2024 for holding a vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza, and the software engineer Joe Lopez in May 2025 after he interrupted Satya Nadella's Build keynote.

Independent coverage of the joint investigation, setting out the scale of the archive, the customised Azure environment and Microsoft's initial response that it had begun an urgent external review. Useful where the original publishers are unreachable.

A joint investigation based on leaked Microsoft documents and eleven sources inside Israeli military intelligence and the company. It reports that Unit 8200 built a system in a customised, segregated area of Azure to collect and store recordings of millions of Palestinian phone calls made daily in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, operational from 2022, holding around 11,500 terabytes by July 2025, roughly 200 million hours of audio, in Microsoft data centres in the Netherlands, with more in Ireland. The project followed a meeting between Satya Nadella and the unit's then commander Yossi Sariel in late 2021, and the aim of storing 'a million calls an hour' circulated inside the unit. Sources said the archive was used to shape operations and to prepare airstrikes in Gaza, and to support arrests in the West Bank.

Names Microsoft. The report finds that Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon 'grant Israel virtually government-wide access to their cloud and artificial intelligence technologies', that Israel-located servers 'ensure data sovereignty and a shield from accountability, under favourable contracts offering minimal restrictions or oversight', and that the cloud providers stepped in with critical infrastructure in October 2023 when the Israeli internal military cloud overloaded. It records an Israeli colonel describing cloud technology in July 2024 as a weapon in every sense of the word.

Microsoft's first statement, four months before it disabled anything. It sets out what it sells the Israeli Ministry of Defense, states that an internal review and an external firm 'found no evidence to date that Microsoft's Azure and AI technologies have been used to target or harm people' in Gaza, and concedes that Microsoft has no visibility into how customers use software on their own premises or on government clouds run by other providers. The Guardian's reporting three months later concerned exactly what Microsoft said it could not see.

The American Friends Service Committee's company file records Azure as the Israeli military's second-largest cloud infrastructure globally; military use rising more than 155% between June 2023 and April 2024, with consumption of Azure AI services 64 times higher by March 2024 than before the assault on Gaza; Unit 8200, Unit 81 and Matspen among the units using Microsoft services; Azure powering the Israel Police's operational systems and the al-Munaseq permit application; free software for Ariel University and institutions in settlements; and Microsoft's 2019 venture investment in the facial recognition firm AnyVision.

Leaked documents show dozens of Israeli army units buying Azure services (air, ground and naval forces as well as Unit 8200) with the military listed internally as an S500 account, a designation for Microsoft's highest-priority customers, and more than 600 subscriptions identified by unit code names including 'Mamram' and '8200'. Israeli military use of Azure rose by more than 155% between June 2023 and April 2024, and the military bought about $10 million of Microsoft engineering hours between October 2023 and June 2024. Microsoft also gave the military extensive access to OpenAI's GPT-4.

The International Court of Justice found Israel's continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory unlawful, held settlements and their associated economic activity contrary to international law, and set out the obligations of states in relation to dealings arising from the occupation. The legal framework on which public procurement reviews and institutional exclusion decisions rest.

Microsoft's venture arm M12 joined a $74 million funding round in AnyVision in June 2019. After reporting that the technology was used to surveil Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Microsoft commissioned an audit by the former US Attorney General Eric Holder and his team at Covington & Burling. The audit confirmed the technology was used to monitor checkpoints between the occupied West Bank and Israel, but concluded it did not power a mass surveillance programme in the West Bank. Microsoft divested anyway in March 2020 and stopped making minority investments in facial recognition companies. The earlier precedent for the September 2025 decision, and by the same law firm.