The Kommersant newspaper reported on Monday that Russians are searching for pirate software after Microsoft stopped selling it in the country.
Russia-based web searches for piracy of Microsoft software increased by as much as 250% after the company stopped new sales. There has been a 650% surge in searches for excel downloads in June.
Microsoft said earlier this month that it is scaling down business in Russia, joining a long list of companies that have stopped doing business in the country due to sanctions. Many of Russia's manufacturing and engineering tech systems are powered by foreign software.
The Moscow Times reported last Friday that Russian government agencies are replacing Windows with Linux. The Linux open source operating system is being used more by Russian system developers.
Some sectors are not easy to swap out.
In the case of industries, software is usually embedded into machinery and providers don't give clients access to the code.
Dunaev said that all industries were facing the same problems. Software is used to control many processes in modern units.
In the short term, there are few options.
The need for Russian analogues in this area is high according to Elena Semenovskaya. The approach is to rely on piracy and outdated copies, which is a dead end and not sustainable.
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