President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin of Russia has made a pronouncement, through the Moscow's Head of Information Technology, Artem Yermolaev, urging the Russia Authorities to halt its reliance on foreign technology.
According to Bloomberg, Artem Yermolaev told reporters that "Moscow will begin replacing Microsoft's Exchange Server and Outlook on 6,000 computers with state-run carrier Rostelecom PJSC's email system. Authorities are looking to deploy the email software to as many as 600,000 computers in the future. And might even replace Windows and the Office suite entirely and other softwares with those developed by Russia's new cloud technology, though there seems to be no solid plan for that at the moment".
Microsoft's fate in Russia's economy is threatened and slowly coming to an end- it might lose a whole city of customers in Russia. Microsoft has not commented on Moscow's decision to use its own software instead of Exchange Server and Outlook.
Just as our Nigeria president have been clamoring for stability of the Nigeria economy and that Nigerians should stop patronizing foreign companies, although no rules & regulations have been put in place to control that. The Russian president has gone steps further control them, citing American corporations' decision to shutter services in Crimea after his government annexed the peninsula in 2014. To ensure things go their way, Putin's internet czar German Klimenko wants to raise taxes imposed upon American firms operating within Russia.
In recent years, Putin's government has also been passing laws and imposing strict requirements to ensure a tight hold over the country's tech sector. Back in 2014, it required websites accessible in Russia to store its citizens' personal data in servers within its borders. Earlier this year, it started requiring internet providers to add backdoor access to their subscribers' encrypted messages, as well.
The Minister of Communications, Nikolay Nikiforov told reporters that "We want the money of taxpayers and state-run firms to be primarily spent on local software. From 2017, government entities including the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, General Prosecutor's Office and Audit Chamber will tightening their grip on state institutions that aren't switching to domestic alternatives".
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