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Summarize this content to 100 words The mass media reported that the Ministry of Digital Affairs considers Microsoft’s decision to refuse to renew subscriptions for Russian corporate customers to be expected. The agency’s specialists are investigating whether Microsoft really intends to refuse to continue subscriptions to corporate customers in the Russian Federation. According to Maksut Shadayev, the head of the Ministry of Digital Affairs, Russian companies had 1.5 years to prepare for such a decision by Microsoft.”We are finding out to what extent this is a confirmed fact. But globally, in general, the problem was clear, and we did not count on the fact that it could continue for a long time,” Shadayev explained to the media. The minister noted that everyone understood “what was going on” and many switched to Russian operating systems based on Linux. Asked whether there are equivalent domestic alternatives to Microsoft software products, he said: “Yes. Unequivocal answer.”At the beginning of August 2023, Microsoft began to notify its Russian corporate customers that licenses for the company’s products and solutions will continue to work until the end of their term, but after September 30, 2023, the extension of licenses will become impossible due to sanctions from the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States . At the beginning of March 2022, Microsoft suspended the sale of goods, software, services and the provision of any new services in Russia. In June 2022, Microsoft announced the reduction of operational activities in Russia and announced the rapid termination of its business in the country. According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the departure of Microsoft from the Russian Federation will not affect the market from the point of view of the use of “pirated” software, but this is a positive situation for developers and manufacturers of Russian software. In April 2023, the Ministry of Digitization named the versions of Russian OSes for mandatory pre-installation by retailers on all desktop computers and laptops delivered to the country, the architectures of which are supported in the solutions of developers from the Russian Federation. Candidates for PC installation can be Astra Linux, Alt Linux, ROSA Linux and RED OS. In June 2023, the Ministry of Digitization confirmed to the mass media that compulsory licensing is planned to be introduced for foreign software under certain conditions and without the consent of the rights holders. Russian companies will be able to legally use foreign software by deducting funds to a special account, part of the money from which will be used to finance preferential IT loans for developers, and the other part will go to a fund to support the Russian IT industry. Analogues of Microsoft solutions: Microsoft Office – OnlyOffice, “P7-Office”, “My Office”, LibreOffice, WPS Office, OfficeSuite, Hancom Office. Microsoft Exchange – SOGo (group work server similar to Microsoft Exchange, with web interface and MAPI access for Microsoft Outlook, license: GPLv2 and LGPLv2). Microsoft Power BI – Polymatica, Visiology, PolyAnalyst, Contour BI, Foresight, Digital Q.Reporting. Microsoft Visio – Autograph, drawio-desktop, Gnome Dia. Microsoft Teams – Yandex.Telemist, Bizon365, Video calls Mail.ru, TrueConf, Webinar Meetings, Pruffme, iMind, Videomist, Jami, IVA MCU, Jazz, VideoUnion. Microsoft Windows – Astra Linux, Alt Linux, “Rosa”, free Linux distributions (Ubuntu and others), RED OS, Calculate Linux.

The Ministry of Digitization considers Microsoft’s decision to refuse to renew subscriptions for Russian corporate clients to be expected