Nor can you download the Media Creation Tool, which is designed to download and update Windows. The site reports “page not found” when trying to retrieve files. Interestingly, complaints about inaccessibility also come from Kazakhstan.

what is known

• According to users on the network, the problem was solved very easily – using a VPN. If you connect to a server in one of the European or United States countries, everything works fine.
• This means that the image file is not deleted on the company side either. Specifically blocked for Russian IP addresses.
• No statement was made by Microsoft and did not respond to questions from the Russian media.
• It is unlikely that this will greatly affect the Russians, who are accustomed to getting a rather expensive OS on torrents by downloading not officially, but pirated versions.
• Probably, in the near future we should expect a new wave of statements from the Russian authorities about the need to switch to its “native counterparts”, including the OS “Aurora”, which is under development and promised to be widely used for several years, but not all will begin.

We will remind you at the beginning of March Microsoft announced that it has stopped selling goods and services in Russia due to the attack on Ukraine.However, it continues to work with schools and hospitals that do not want to leave because of the difficulties these institutions may encounter. According to Microsoft President Brad Smith, the company “remembers the moral responsibility” to protect civilians, but “depriving organizations of software and service updates can “endanger the health and safety of innocent civilians, including children and the elderly”.

from February 24 Microsoft significantly cuts its business in Russia and lays off 400 employees, but still at least fulfilling old contracts with non-sanctioned customers. It is not clear with whom these contracts were signed.