The question is, what has caused the pozz to metastasize, to mix medical metaphors. Sure, the Left coast has been that way for a long time, although e.g. both Oregon and Washington state have been much more pro-gun for a long time, and longer than California. Washington state beats every other one except Vermont, which never banned carriage of guns, by implementing shall issue concealed carry in the early 1960s, way way before Florida started the nationwide sweep in 1986.

Microsoft wasn't previously known for SJW behavior, what's changed, besides the leadership from founder to very early employee to a guy who joined the company in 1992, two years after he got his terminal technology degree. So he's been in the company for a very long time, but not in the earliest formative years, not in, for example, the period that lead to finally creating a version of Windows worth using, which had to wait on the Intel 386.