Lomonosov Moscow State University is switching from Microsoft software to My Office and Yandex products

March 21, 2024 it became known that Moscow State University (Moscow State University) named after M.V. Lomonosov implements a large-scale project on import substitution in the field of software. Instead of Microsoft products, applications and online services "My Office" and "Yandex 360" will be used.

According to TASS, in the current geopolitical situation, Moscow State University transfers the accounts and data of university employees and students from foreign software to domestic solutions. In June 2023, Moscow State University, My Office and Rostelecom signed an agreement aimed at making Russian IT technologies more accessible and providing users with a comfortable transition from foreign software. We are talking, among other things, about the creation of domestic software and hardware systems.

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Denis Yanyshev, director of the Center for the Development of Electronic Educational Resources of Moscow State University, said that, in addition to the products of My Office and Yandex, the university plans to use Astra Linux and Rosa Linux solutions. And instead of services for, and video conferencings Zoom Microsoft Teams Skype apply, and. Vinteo Yandex Teleconference SberJazz

Systematic work is underway... on translation to Yandex 360, this is for the corporate environment. Instead of Microsoft Office, we signed an agreement with My Office, a domestic product. We were internally prepared for what could happen. Well, then there are plans for a systematic transition, - notes Yanyshev.

As part of the agreement, My Office transfers its most popular document editing solutions to Moscow State University. It is noted that the products of "My Office" for ordinary and corporate users, in fact, completely replace the usual foreign office suite. These are editors for working with texts, tables and presentations, solutions for the safe storage of files and their exchange, e-mail, etc.^[1]

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