In early March 2022, Microsoft suspended activities in the territory of the Russian Federation. Event has become a powerful impulse to the accelerated implementation of Russian analogs of Windows and MS Office - operating systems (Red Soft, Alt Linux, Astra Linux, mobile OS "Aurora") and office packages ("P7-office", "My office", "My office Standard, "etc.)

This situation directly touched the widest range of users. But for large Russian IT companies, an additional problem was a refusal to access the Microsoft Azure cloud service.

In particular, some Mail.Ru mail functions were implemented via Microsoft Azure. As a result of a postage from Azure from March 17, users disappeared the ability to view files in attachments to letters.

Holding VK (owns mail service Mail.Ru) I had to urgently solve the problem. Replacing the inaccessible Azure functional served as a company "Autonomous Editing Module" (AMR). The integration of AMR and the service "Cloud" Mail.ru began.

The AMR was created in 2021. The solution is intended for integration into web services and allows you to open and view office documents from the browser. Even before the incident with Mail.Ru, large-scale AMR integration began in the domestic system of document management "Priority", which is used to 25% of federal ministries. And now the integration of Mail.Ru with AMR made it possible to "import-dependent" opening and viewing invested text and tabular files.

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Surprising with what kind of efficiency this real step was taken in import substitution. In this case, the stimulus served as a situation that put VK before the threat to lose a significant part of users.

In previous years, import substitution concerned state structure. He was carried out by administrative measures. And there was a relatively low pace. In fact, the years prepared for the situation, which developed only in recent weeks. And today, when many imported services and solutions have become inaccessible, the commercial sector rushed with seven-year steps to catch up with the state and the defense in the saturation of Russian software.

What do you think, who will come to the finish line first?

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