Contents tagged with Microsoft

  • Russia preparing to ban Microsoft

    At the “Internet after Globality” conference, Herman Klimenko, advisor to the Russian president on matters related to the Internet, said that Microsoft “may be asked” to leave Russia, RBC news agency reports.

     “I hope that we will be proud of those projects where we are doing really well - in artificial intelligence, neural networks, etc. It is clear that in today’s fragmented world, when Kaspersky is asked to leave America, and we are likely to ask Microsoft to leave us, it will be amusing to …

  • Kremlin: Microsoft and Google help Russian authorities block Telegram

    Interfax reports that Aleksandr Zharov, the head of Roskomnadzor (The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media), has announced that Microsoft and Google will stop providing the messaging service Telegram with opportunities to bypass Russia’s blocking service.

    "Microsoft has stopped providing Telegram with the opportunity to use the Microsoft Download configuration file service; [additionally] Google has informed us that, at present, it has …

  • Kremlin warns Microsoft of multibillion dollar losses if it complies with US sanctions against Russia

    Software giant Microsoft could lose several billion dollars’ worth of market revenue in Russia due to US sanctions, said Nikolai Nikiforov, the Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation to journalists on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, TASS reports.

    "[The sanctions] will end with the fact that Microsoft will lose a market worth several billion dollars in terms of its corporate and government clients in our country," Nikiforov stated. He added that …

  • Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and Microsoft sign memorandum of cooperation

    The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and Microsoft Ukraine have signed a memorandum of cooperation, as  reported by the press service of the defense department.According to the report, the memorandum was signed on Monday, November 27.

    “The subject of the memorandum is interaction with regard to the introduction of modern information technology in the field of defense, taking into account NATO’s standards and approaches...Collaboration involves drawing on Microsoft’s experience in cooperating …