“From the point of view of developers and manufacturers of domestic software, this step (Microsoft's departure from the Russian market. -

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) is certainly positive.

In the medium and long term, it will have a very positive effect on their capabilities and on those market niches that they can occupy, ”TASS quotes him.

Shpak noted that a number of domestic operating systems already exist in Russia, for example, Astra, Viola, Red OS.

On March 4, Microsoft decided to suspend sales of goods and services in Russia.

Microsoft later banned Russians from downloading Windows 11 and Windows 10.

Information security expert Aleksey Lukatsky, in an interview with Newinform, spoke about new informational occasions used by scammers.