Microsoft employees ask the company to withdraw from the military supply with HoloLens glasses

In November, Microsoft announced the signing of a contract with the US government to provide the army with 100,000 HOLO-HOL manufactured according to a traditional model and benefiting from modern technology for use in clashes and attacks. armed battles. The company, which sent its opposition to the agreement demanding the withdrawal of this decision, sent a letter to the executive director of Microsoft, Satya Nadla.

"We are deeply concerned that Microsoft is selling weapons technology to the US military, which means helping to increase the lethality of a country's government at the expense of the tools we have built in our hands. ", says the letter.

The letter includes a large number of signatures of employees who felt that the company could hold the red lines when entering into this agreement, Zha herself in the weapons development tunnel, to which the employees opposed who require to withdraw from this contract and to stop such attempts and to develop weapons techniques The company does not build these techniques and is reviewed by an external board for its application.