On Sunday, TASS, the most important state-owned Russian information company, revealed a discover to Telegram saying that “Makes an attempt to put in Home windows 11 and Home windows 10 from Microsoft’s web site finish with an error” (translated by DeepL). The Telegram message additionally notes that the obtain completes with out difficulty whereas linked to a VPN.
Whereas linked to the Russian VPN server, clicking the obtain button for the Home windows 11 Set up Assistant redirected us to a obtain web page that displayed a 404 error. We have been in a position to obtain the Home windows 11 set up media device, however, the device throws an error with the code 0x80072F8F-0x20000 when run. The error dialog says in Russian, “For some unknown cause, this device didn’t run in your laptop.” All different obtain choices displayed the error proven within the picture above.
Microsoft has but to make a press release confirming that this conduct is intentional, so we’ll need to see whether or not the corporate is purposefully blocking Russian customers from downloading Home windows set up instruments. Paradoxically, whereas plainly Russians can connect with a VPN server situated outdoors of Russia to get round this restriction, the federal government has banned the usage of fifteen totally different VPN companies in an effort to stop residents from connecting to the web with out going via the Federal Authorities Data System.