- Putin wants Western software to be “accelerated” within Russia
- Microsoft and Zoom are still widely used by Russian companies
- There are national alternatives, but they are not adopting as fast as Putin would like
American technology companies, including Microsoft and Zoom, must be “strangled” and “strangled” to operate in Russia, said President Vladimir Putin.
The statements, reported by PakGazetteAccording to the reports, they were presented in response to the complaints of the Russian business leaders that the US companies that previously announced their departure from the Russian markets in response to the invasion of Ukraine still continue to operate in the country.
Microsoft announced the suspension of new sales of its software in the Russian market in 2022, but many Russian companies still use Western products and software, probably due to the lack of national alternatives.
Putin wants national office software
The sanctions established by the Western countries after the invasion of Ukraine of Russia in 2022 have led to generalized calls for products of local origin and produced in the country, from aircraft parts to office software.
Many companies that retired from Russia left their locations and assets instead, such as McDonalds, which was replaced by a new company called “Vkusno I Tochka”, who quickly introduced analogues of classic menu elements such as the ‘great success’ (a non -police infringing alternative to the great Mac).
Now it seems that Putin wants to distance Russia from the West more when pressing so that Russian companies begin to use or produce software that can replace the solutions offered by Microsoft and Zoom.
There are already alternatives to western software, since Kaspersky Lab becomes a majority shareholder of the мойофофоф (Myffice) software to improve the collaboration between the office suite and the Kasperskyos de Kaspersky Operating System itself.
Western products and software previously dominated the Russian markets before the invasion of Ukraine, and Russia took measures to move away from Western software in the decade before the ‘Special Military Operation’. It remains to be seen how well the national alternatives will perform in the range of operating systems based on Linux in Russia.
