Microsoft Israel has been placed under the management of Microsoft France, after the company announced the departure of…
Microsoft Israel’s general manager, Alon Haimovich, has left the company after an internal investigation found that its Israeli subsidiary had been using Azure cloud services in ways that violated Microsoft’s code of ethics. In Haimovich’s absence, Microsoft’s global leadership has handed temporary oversight of the Israeli office to Microsoft France—an unusual arrangement that signals just how seriously Redmond is treating the fallout. Several other senior managers in Microsoft Israel’s governance department have also stepped down.
The departures follow a probe triggered by pressure from both inside and outside the company over Microsoft’s cloud contracts with Israel’s Ministry of Defense.
