Microsoft has opened access to updates to its products. Windows 11 23H2 and Office download without VPN and without third-party software. Previously, updates could not be installed on computers with Russian IPs, writes Izvestia.
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To update or install the software again, the user must go to the corresponding menu in the operating system and press the “install” button, after which the new version of the software will begin to download from the company’s official servers. You can also do it from the download center of the official portal.
Additionally, Microsoft has not blocked cloud software products for Russian IT companies, despite promising to do so in March.
Experts are confident that these actions of the corporation are due to the fact that it does not want to lose an important market that is gradually changing to its own solutions.
- Microsoft began reducing its business in Russia in 2022. The company laid off all local office employees; Now only two people work there, one of them is general manager Benjamin Owen Orndorff.
- At the end of 2023, the total revenue of all Russian legal entities of Microsoft amounted to 217 million rubles, up from 6.87 billion rubles in 2022. Last year’s net profit amounted to 141 million rubles, up from 178.3 million rubles in 2022.
- In March 2024, Microsoft sent letters to Russian customers about suspending access to cloud products. The Russian company Softline told the agency that as of April 1 there were no blockages.
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Source: RB
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