Microsoft is the latest tech giant to suspend sales of its products and services in Russia.
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, Microsoft president Brad Smith has announced that the company will suspend all new sales of both its products and services in the country. In a new blog post, Smith explained that Microsoft is stopping many aspects of its business in Russia in compliance with governmental sanctions as it works together in lockstep with the US, EU and UK governments. The software giant has joined the growing list of companies including Apple, Dell and others which will no longer sell their products in Russia following new US and EU sanctions against the country. Meanwhile, Google just announced that it has pulled all online sales of ads in the country. Microsoft has also banned the Russian state-owned media outlet RT from the Microsoft Store as well as de-ranked both it and Sputnik in its search engine Bing.
