“Like the rest of the world, we are horrified, angry and saddened by the footage and news coming from the war in Ukraine. We condemn this unjustified, unprovoked and illegal Russian invasion, “said Microsoft President Brad Smith.
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Smith also said that in addition to suspending sales of Microsoft’s products and services, Microsoft was suspending many aspects of its business in Russia, in line with Western governments’ sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. He also noted that the company continues to help Ukraine defend against Russian cyber attacks.
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Microsoft was more reticent
At the same time, Microsoft was more reticent in its steps and took steps that did not hurt Russia so much.
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“We are taking further steps quickly to prevent the spread of Russian propaganda. Microsoft’s websites will not display any state-sponsored content from RT (Russia Today) and Sputnik. In addition, the Bing search engine will only display the pages of these TVs if people search for them in a targeted manner. At the same time, we have removed RT news applications from our Microsoft Store. We also excluded both TV stations from our advertising network, “Microsoft Smith calculated some measures at the beginning of the week.
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“Microsoft has employees around the world, including Ukraine, Russia and throughout Eastern Europe. In the light of the recent conflicts, we clearly see a common bond between our employees and a humanitarian spirit that transcends borders. “Everyone only wants peace,” Smith said at the time.
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Apple announced earlier this week that it had suspended sales of all its products immediately after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “We stopped all exports of our goods to Russia last week,” CNN was quoted as saying by Apple on Tuesday night.
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“At the same time, we have reduced the operation of the Apple Pay payment service, deleted news from the Russian government-sponsored television stations RT News and Sputnik News from the App Store, and deactivated traffic information in Apple Maps,” Apple said in a statement.
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