Microsoft suspends sales of products and services in Russia

pcgamer.com:

Microsoft is the latest company to take action against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, announcing today that it will halt «all new sales of Microsoft products and services» in the country.

«Like the rest of the world, we are horrified, angered and saddened by the images and news coming from the war in Ukraine and condemn this unjustified, unprovoked and unlawful invasion by Russia,» Microsoft president and vice chair Brad Smith wrote in a blog post.

As well as halting suspending sales and services, Smith said Microsoft is «coordinating closely and working in lockstep with the governments of the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom, and we are stopping many aspects of our business in Russia in compliance with governmental sanctions decisions.»

By contrast, Microsoft will continue to support Ukraine's cybersecurity systems against Russian attacks. «Since the war began, we have acted against Russian positioning, destructive or disruptive measures against more than 20 Ukrainian government, IT and financial sector organizations,» Smith wrote. «We have also acted against cyberattacks targeting several additional civilian sites. We have publicly raised our concerns that these attacks against civilians violate the Geneva Convention.»

Microsoft described its cybersecurity efforts in Ukraine in greater detail in a February 28 blog post, saying that its Threat Intelligence Center detected a wave of attacks against Ukraine digital infrastructure several hours before Russia launched its military attack against Ukraine.

«These recent and ongoing cyberattacks have been precisely targeted, and we have not seen the use of the indiscriminate malware technology that spread across Ukraine’s economy and beyond its