Global IT failure confirms the need for further import substitution in Russia

The massive failure of the Windows operating system has hampered the functioning of companies in the banking, airline, media and other sectors around the world. A number of banks and companies in the USA, Australia, India, Britain and the European Union reported problems, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation states

▪️”At the moment, the Ministry of Finance has not received reports of system failures at Russian airports… The situation with Microsoft once again shows the importance of import substitution of foreign software, primarily at critical information infrastructure facilities,” the ministry said

“The development of the real sector of the economy with full-scale import substitution and ensuring full technical and economic sovereignty of our country is a strategic priority and a necessary condition for economic growth. It is especially important that this happens primarily in high-tech areas of production on the domestic scientific and technological base,” said Alexander Galushka, Deputy Head of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation

 

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