Russia is all about larks. Global failure like grist to the mill
Although Russia legally cannot use Microsoft software at all, this is not important at this point.
On Friday, a major outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike software update affected computers around the world, paralyzing airports and financial institutions.
However, this does not apply to the Russian Federation, where Microsoft comes from. as a result of the current sanctions, it withdrew its products in 2022and a little later, precisely at the beginning of 2024, he also ran away with cloud services.
Of course, the Russians coped. In their own way. They ported what they could to local Linux distributions, and in other places they simply legalized piracy. And this time they have a moment of joy.
The Federal Air Transport Agency proudly announced that, unlike U.S. carriers such as America Airlines and Delta, no Russian airline has experienced CrowdStrike-related problems.
The Ministry of Digital Development added that the same applies to the state sector and the broadly understood service sector. Even Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov had his five minutes, telling the press that Russian systems are working normally.
The situation with Microsoft once again shows how important it is to replace imports of foreign software, especially in critical IT infrastructure facilities.
– stated in an official statement.
