Microsoft has been operating in Russia since 1992 and today operates in 70 cities across the country. The head office of the company is located in Moscow. The company has over 10,000 authorized partners. Russian representative offices of international companies and legal entities that have not been sanctioned receive offers from the American Microsoft to extend the license for its software. Microsoft from September 30, 2023 will stop renewing subscriptions for corporate customers from Russia. It will be impossible to extend them. But all active subscriptions will be active for the rest of the term. Google, which produces Pixel smartphones, and Microsoft, which produces game consoles, continue to use Russian tungsten, gold and tantalum in their gadgets. The United States has a ban on tantalum from the Russian Federation, but not a single company has been fined for such imports. After Russian Licenses Freeze the government announced the ability of Russia to live without Microsoft software. Microsoft Corporation does not plan to liquidate its legal entities in Russia, their financial statements for 2023 show. During 2022, the entire staff of the Russian office was laid off, despite the fact that at the end of 2021 the number of personnel exceeded 370 people. Now all local Microsoft companies employ two people, including their common leader - Benjamin Owen Orndorff.