Europe’s Microsoft exit is no longer theoretical. After the ICC prosecutor was cut off from Microsoft email, European tech companies built the alternative and Euro-Office ships in days.
🖥️ Euro-Office launches June 9 as a sovereign, open-source alternative to Microsoft 365.
🇪🇺 The platform is built by European companies, hosted in Europe, governed in Europe, and designed for European public institutions.
📄 It supports familiar Microsoft file formats like DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX.
⚖️ The trigger is sovereignty: Microsoft cannot guarantee European data is beyond US legal reach under the CLOUD Act.
🇫🇷 France is moving civil servants away from Teams, Zoom, WebEx, and Windows toward open-source alternatives.
🇩🇪 Schleswig-Holstein already migrated 40,000 civil servants off Microsoft systems, saving more than the transition cost within a year.
🌍 The deeper pattern is clear: Europe is building fallback infrastructure before Washington proves again that dependency has a kill switch.