Microsoft will close access to its cloud products to customers from Russia from March 20, 2024. Companies that use these products received a letter about this from Microsoft, a source who received such a letter told RBC.
Microsoft cited EU sanctions as the reason for the new restrictions, which made it impossible to supply “certain management or design software (including cloud solutions) to organizations registered in Russia.”
As RBC experts explained, this is due to the 12th package of EU sanctions against Russia, adopted in December last year. It contains restrictions on the supply of business intelligence software. According to market participants, many assumed that such a ban was possible, but still continued to use Microsoft products.
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that the corporation would reduce business in the Russian Federation until “there was nothing left of it.” At the same time, in the spring of 2023, Russian representative offices of international companies and legal entities not subject to sanctions began receive proposals from Microsoft to renew the license for its software.
2024-03-15 19:10:00
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