Technically, it is not that the parliament as an organisation asks to prohibit Windows 10. It is only coming from a representative of one minority fraction «Ju

Technically, it is not that the parliament as an organisation asks to prohibit Windows 10. It is only coming from a representative of one minority fraction «Just Russia» (generally considered fully and completely loyal to government (as opposed to mostly loyal Liberal-Democrats, who are not liberal democrats in any Western meaning, and Communists), but even more populist than the government pseudo-party United Russia). He is a deputy speaker (deputy chairman) for parliament; each minority fraction has got a deputy speaker position. So this plea may be ignored. Or it could be used as a trigger to issue arbitrary regulations on arbitrary possibly unrelated topic. If there is a political decision to move to open-source tools (this is a big if), it will be actually not that hard to implement (if we are speaking about office use). Sensible options for use in government organisations include ALT Linux (an RPM-based independent distribution developed mostly in Russia which managed to obtain a few Russia-specific certifications) and MSVS (Mobile System Of Armed Forces; think CentOS with some special access control tools). Threats of forbidding Microsoft Windows use in some settings (previous attempts, for example, promoted allowing training and support expenses but forbidding licensing expenses in school budgets) apparently were previously used as bargaining tools in Russia. (Russian is my native language and I live in Russia)