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Vladimir Putin Is Replacing Microsoft Programs With Domestic Software (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Moscow city will replace Microsoft Corp. programs with domestic software on thousands of computers in answer to President Vladimir Putin's call for Russia's authorities to reduce dependence on foreign technology amid tensions with the U.S. and Europe. The city will initially replace Microsoft's Exchange Server and Outlook on 6,000 computers with an e-mail system installed by state-run carrier Rostelecom PJSC, Artem Yermolaev, head of information technology for Moscow, told reporters Tuesday. Moscow may expand deployment of the new software, developed by Russia's New Cloud Technologies, to as many as 600,000 computers and servers, and may also consider replacing Windows and Office, Yermolaev said. Putin is urging state entities and local companies to go domestic amid concerns over security and reliability after U.S. firms shut down paid services in Crimea following Russia's 2014 annexation. The plan poses a challenge to the likes of Microsoft, SAP SE and Oracle Corp. in the country's $3 billion software market. Adding to pressure, Putin's internet czar German Klimenko wants to raise taxes on U.S. technology companies to help Russian competitors such as Yandex NV and Mail.ru Group Ltd.
can unintentionally do the right things: kick Microsoft's, SAP's et al.'s ass.
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
...domestic software replaces YOU, mr. Nadella ?!?
They're going to lose the revenue from both of the Office licenses used by the Russian government...
Once the average Russian gets tired of their homegrown software crapping out on them they'll be begging for their Windows 98 workstations back.
Let it be called KremLinux and all is forgiven!
The only surprise here is that Moscow was using Microsoft software at all. That sounds insane.
Let me foresee what will happen... Putin will replace Microsoft programs with ripped off open-source software with minor UI and major back-doors updates;
Then, with great patriotic pride, will pronounce the motherland's major step towards cleansing itself from western spying and corruption.
themselves,
Would you feel comfortable if the White House, Wallstreet, DOD, DOJ, Police, Universities and Congress ran a complete Chinese software stack? Chinese routers, OS, Firewalls, Office, Mail, antivirus, etc etc.?
Why are other peoples sig's always more witty ???
Microsoft probably works with every government they sell their software into as far as spying on their citizens etc. (it only makes business sense since these guys control market access and Microsoft has never been a company to quibble over morals) - so I'm sure Microsoft and Mr. Putin's Russia were great partners up till now.
Now Putin may be wary that Microsoft gives preferential treatment to the NSA (since we know they worked closely with them before thanks to Snowden) etc. or he may just be doing this for domestic consumption (he appears to do alot of this) since their economy is in a tailspin.
This is called investing in your country and people. America, its government, and its corporations should take note.
It makes perfect sense to remove the same systems you target in other countries from your own server farms and run proprietary systems that are less widely known and understood.
I am not interested in articles about life extension advancements.
What if they ran on a set of hardware manufactured in China? That would be even worse!
All countries should do this. Use open standards to exchange information with other countries/businesses and develop their own software. Having local operating systems/programs helps expand local computing knowledge and lessens the likelihood of data theft via back doors etc.
As an added benefit people would be forced to start exchanging data in open formats or their partners/customers simply won't be able to read the data.
I's a healthy idea.
Come on Putin, as long as we're rebuilding the Soviet Union, bring ternary computing back for a second go-round!
So the end of the communism did not end the shortage of toilet paper?
For our non-Soviet friends: TP was in notorious short supply during the final days of the communist rule, which led to a lot of amusing anecdotes and jokes like:
Party Speaker: Comrades! In 5 years, everyone will have a car! ... the toilet paper?
Listener: And when are we going to get toilet paper?
PS: And comrades! In 10 years, everyone will have his own little house!
L: But
PS (outraged): KISS MY ASS! (literally: lick me in the asshole)
L: As usual. For themselves, the party has a solution, but for us...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Except that Linus is the first name, while Putin is the family name. So it should be more like Vlad the Compiler.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
can unintentionally do the right things: kick Microsoft's, SAP's et al.'s ass.
While it's a good first step, Russia should do the world a service on the OS front by backing efforts to make ReactOS a full fledged OS. Have 2 flavors - a win64 version that's fully compatible w/ Windows 7, and a win32 version that's fully compatible w/ XP. Make sure that Classic Shell runs on it, or better still, make it a part of the shell so that people can pick whichever UI they wanna work in.
I could see Russia, but why would China, Iran or any Islamic entity want Trump to win? China would stand to lose big if they can no longer sell to the US, and if Trump follows through on his extreme vetting moves to stop hostile Muslims from coming into the US, ISIS and AQ have no reason to rejoice either. The last 3 have probably just said it hoping to apply reverse psychology on the US voters