Microsoft suspends “all new gross sales of services in Russia”
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Microsoft suspends “all new gross sales of services in Russia”


Microsoft suspends “all new sales of products and services in Russia”

Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith introduced at this time through weblog put up that Microsoft could be suspending “all new gross sales of Microsoft services in Russia” following the nation’s “unjustified, unprovoked, and illegal” invasion of Ukraine. The corporate did not identify particular merchandise, however a blanket ban would come with Home windows and Workplace software program, Floor and Xbox {hardware}, Azure cloud computing providers, and shopper providers like OneDrive and Xbox Sport Move.

Microsoft is not the primary of the large tech corporations to formally halt gross sales in Russia whereas the nation’s invasion of Ukraine continues. Apple halted gross sales of its merchandise there earlier this week, and Google suspended promoting in Russia yesterday. A number of tech corporations, together with Microsoft, have additionally blocked, demonetized, or deprioritized content material from Russian state media shops like RT and Sputnik. And a few recreation corporations have heeded requests from the Ukrainian authorities to halt gross sales of their video games in Russia whereas the invasion continues.

Microsoft wrote a separate weblog put up earlier this week detailing its efforts to cease malware and different cyberattacks in opposition to Ukrainian and European targets. In the present day’s put up reiterates the corporate’s concentrate on these points.

“Because the battle started, we’ve got acted in opposition to Russian positioning [of] damaging or disruptive measures in opposition to greater than 20 Ukrainian authorities, IT, and monetary sector organizations,” Smith wrote. “We now have additionally acted in opposition to cyberattacks concentrating on a number of extra civilian websites. We now have publicly raised our considerations that these assaults in opposition to civilians violate the Geneva Conference.”

Using “new gross sales” in Microsoft’s assertion presumably signifies that present clients shall be unaffected, however Microsoft says it’s working with the US, EU, and UK governments to adjust to sanctions that these governments have positioned on Russia because the invasion started.

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