Microsoft outage renews European calls to detox from US techA Politico Europe article reports from Dublin that Friday's Microsoft outage, which hit Outlook and Teams for nearly 24 hours across 74 countries, renewed European calls to control its own digital infrastructure. Lawmakers and executives — including Mistral's Arthur Mensch, who said only 20% of European digital services run on European infrastructure — urged reinvestment and digital sovereignty, and Emmanuel Macron posted on X, "Our independence cannot be outsourced."