State-owned companies have reduced the purchase of licenses for Windows by almost 70%

November 14th. /MEDIA TALK/. According to the company "Contour.Purchases" referred to by Kommersant, state-owned companies have purchased 55% less Microsoft products this year. Operating systems and office packages and other programs were purchased for a total amount of 24.1 million rubles. Purchases of Windows OS decreased by 69% to 7 million rubles. In particular, according to market participants, companies are buying older versions of the 2019-2021 operating system.

According to experts, organizations cannot completely abandon American programs due to the lack of alternatives. According to their data, it may take 14-15 years to create full-fledged Russian analogues of the operating system.


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According to experts, if new sanctions are imposed, Russian companies may face serious difficulties. Back in the summer of 2023, the Ministry of Finance announced plans to switch the public sector to domestic software from 2025.

In the summer, we wrote about how the global economy suffered $500 million due to the Windows crash.