Windows 10 And Windows 11 Blocked for Belarusians

However, there is a nuance.

The cnews.ru edition noticed that Microsoft banned Russians from downloading Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Journalists of zerkalo.io found out if there are any changes for Belarusians.

In early March, Microsoft supported anti-war sanctions and decided to suspend sales of new products and services in Russia. The ban has also affected Belarus.

On June 18, journalists from the cnews.ru edition noticed that a restriction appeared on the Microsoft website on downloading Windows 10 and Windows 11 from Russian IPs. For example, when you try to download a Windows 11 ISO file, the Microsoft download page displays the message "There was a problem processing your request".

Microsoft did not comment on the situation at the time of their article publication, according to the edition.

We decided to check whether this situation has affected our country. It turned out that if you download with a VPN, after setting Belarus as your country, it works.

But our reader failed to do it without a VPN. Neither Beltelecom nor mobile operator A1 gave any result. Here is the result.

Recall that Windows is the most popular desktop operating system in the world. According to cnews.ru, as of May 2022, it occupied 75.54% of the global market against 14.98% for Apple macOS and 2.45% for all Linux distributions (StatCounter statistics). The most popular Windows release in May 2022 was Windows 10 (71.82%).