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According to numerous reports from social network users, anyone in Russia who wants to download an installation image of Windows 10 or 11 or any of Microsoft’s installation tools will encounter error messages. Since these files are still available in other areas, blocking Windows ISO downloads in Russia is probably a political decision by Microsoft.
Bleeping Computer team has decided to put these claims to test, and used a VPN with a region set to Russia. They encountered multiple errors when trying to download the ISO image of Microsoft’s operating system. Depending on the files you want to download, attempts will result in messages such as: “404 – File or directory not found” or “There is a problem with your request”.
