In Russia will create an analogue of the Microsoft Outlook mail client

GC “Ai-Teco” and “Rosatom” also appear among the performers. The total amount of necessary expenses is estimated at 1.1 billion rubles, Vedomosti reported.

The mail system will have to support more than 400,000 mailboxes. Each user will send an average of 50 messages a day, their average volume will be 500 kilobytes. The new service should also have a single address book with the ability to search for a contact by various parameters.

In Russia, the three most famous email clients are CommuniGate Systems, VK (Mail.ru Post product) and Moyoffice (Mailion solution). According to the publication’s source, these companies do not yet have large-scale facilities.

• Microsoft at the beginning of March 2022 suspended the sale of goods and the provision of services in Russia due to a special operation in Ukraine. At the same time, at the end of the month, the corporation announced that it would continue to do business in the country with clients not subject to sanctions, including schools and hospitals. The company refused to leave Russia completely.
• In September, Microsoft banned Russians from upgrading computers from Windows 10 to Windows 11. When trying to download the downloader for the latest version of Windows, an empty browser window opened on the company’s official website.
• Microsoft at the end of December allowed Russians to download Windows operating systems after the September ban: Russian users can again download and install Windows 11, 10, Windows 8.1. and Windows 7 from the company’s official website. The software page on the site reloads without VPN.