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Well, they're not wrong to do that.

Note that Medvedev is behind this. He's Putin's alternate; when Putin hit his term limit, Medvedev ran for Premier and won, then deferred all decisions to Putin. So this is official policy, not some minor Duma member.

Windows 10 may be the worst product change since New Coke.



Medvedev has not yet said anything on this topic.

He is the receiver of the plea by deputy speaker (deputy chairman) of parliament representing «Just Russia» (a minority ultra-loyal fraction in parliament).

By now the voices for banning or restricting Windows 10 are from Levichev («Just Russia») and some defense lawyers.

The receivers (not authors) of such petitions are currently Medvedev (current prime minister and former president), supreme state prosecution/oversight office (has some similarities and some differences with attorney general and his staff) and communication oversight agency (the agency responsible, among other things, for allocating radio frequencies and for keeping the internet censorship blocklist).


You are exaggerating, I understand there are concerns about the "privacy" part but I would not call Windows 10 worst of anything.




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