According to Izvestija, Microsoft, which withdrew from Russia at the beginning of the war of aggression, has again enabled updates of its Windows operating system and Office services in Russia in May.
The American technology giant Microsoft has quietly continued to offer its services to private and business customers in Russia who use the company’s equipment and services. The Russian media is reporting on it Izvestija.
According to Izvestija, Microsoft, which withdrew from Russia at the beginning of the war of aggression, has again enabled updates of its Windows operating system and Office services in Russia in May. Updating the devices no longer requires users to use a VPN service that changes the location information of the devices. In addition, Microsoft has continued to provide cloud services to Russian IT companies, even though it promised to do otherwise back in March.
According to the experts contacted by Izvestija, behind Microsoft’s change of heart is probably the fear of losing a significant market position in Russia.
He was the first to tell about it in Finland Helsingin sanomat newspaper.
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