Israel has embraced Microsoft’s products, and the company committed to Israel’s industries – enough so that
former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says “Microsoft is as much an Israeli company as an American company.” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates
said that Israel’s developments in “security” were “improving the world,” and current Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
praised Israel’s transformative “human capital.” But
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went further: Israel and Microsoft were “a marriage made in heaven, but recognized here on earth.”