The Russian government has threatened to nationalize or seize assets from several western companies that have halted operations in the country. Microsoft, Apple, BP, and McDonald's are among the companies that could be affected by the move.
  • @ree@lemmy.ml
    6•2 years ago

    Apple and windows have administrative access to all device right?

    Coulnd’t they juste brick 99% of Russia PCs over night if they wanted?

  • ghost_laptop
    5•2 years ago

    How is the government going to handle the use of public computers if Microsoft is getting out of Russia? I mean, I’m sure they already have a lot of pirated copies and old versions of Windows, as any (at least third world) country does, but at some point I don’t see any option to either pirate every copy of Windows or start using Linux.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      9•2 years ago

      I’m guessing Linux will end up being the long term solution, and they’ll just keep using old versions of windows before they can phase it out. Astra Linux is the main domestic distro there and I imagine it’ll be getting rolled out more aggressively now.

    • @blank_sl8@lemmy.ml
      3•2 years ago

      A while back Microsoft sent Russia the full Windows source code, per their government’s request. (I doubt they licensed them to do anything with said source code, but Putin won’t care).