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> I wonder whether this will help the already strengthening trend of some governments to unstick themselves from Microsoft (in particular their cloud).

It will help a bit, but it would need much more than 24h to have a real impact. If their service is still down in a week, now we're talking.

Now everyone's talking, because that will be the main option without email.