Diversity tops agenda at Microsoft shareholders meeting

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Diversity topped the agenda at Microsoft's first annual shareholders meeting with Satya Nadella as CEO.

Seated in the second row next to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's former CEO and the company's largest individual shareholder, was civil rights activist Jesse Jackson. During the question-and-answer session before 400 shareholders, Jackson urged Microsoft to hire and promote more women and minorities. Nadella assured Jackson that closing the racial and gender gap is important to Microsoft and pledged to release more detailed information on the diversity of Microsoft's work force by the end of 2014.


Diversity tops agenda at Microsoft shareholders meeting