Russian state-owned companies continued to purchase software from Microsoft, which left the market, this year, although in smaller volumes, Kommersant writes. According to the Kontur.Purchasing company, government agencies (under 223-FZ and 44-FZ) spent 24.1 million rubles on the purchase of Microsoft products, including purchases in small volumes, in 10 months of 2024, while in 2023 52.5 million rubles were spent for these purposes.
Purchases of Windows OS by state companies and state corporations (under 223-FZ) during this period amounted to 7 million rubles, which is 69% less year-on-year, Office packages – 3 million rubles. (75% less). Kontur.Zakupki noted that state-owned companies are not ready to completely abandon Microsoft products, since some programs are not import-substituted. Therefore, they purchase “leftovers” of Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 versions 2019 and 2021. The number of such small-volume purchases almost doubled year-on-year, although the amount decreased from 3.2 million to 2.4 million rubles.
In turn, the electronic trading platform Roseltorg calculated that, according to Federal Law 223, purchases of Windows OS decreased by 21% in monetary terms, to 35.5 million rubles, and the number of tenders decreased by 5%, to 55 units. According to Federal Law 44, purchases decreased by 14% to 22.7 million rubles. and the number of tenders decreased by 12% – to 99 units, Kommersant reports.
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Experts and industry representatives interviewed by Kommersant suggest that Microsoft may not want to completely lose the market in the Russian Federation and is lowering prices. In addition, even in the registry of domestic software there are products that are only compatible with Windows. In some cases, it may take more than 10 years to create Russian analogues of foreign solutions. Another factor is the need for investment, including cash, in employee retraining and software development.
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