Microsoft started production in Russia

Microsoft presented its Windows and Microsoft Office production in Russia. Printing complex Sonopress in Yaroslavl has now been issuing discs with OEM-versions for few months. This step is positioned as an answer to Russia's need for licensed goods considering its second place among worlds biggest copyright violator. However local market experts say the move was forced by revision of the custom clearance procedure. Earlier the charge was calculated with the price of a storage device only, now the software is evaluated too. Other global developers are following Microsoft. Adobe Systems announced it's going to make software downloads from the web available for Russia's and CIS consumers. Further it plans to partly move discs' production to Russia too.