The problem is described in the first two sentences of the article:

> "The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court suddenly couldn't access his email. According to Microsoft, that's because of US sanctions against the court's employees."

Nothing you've listed relates to that.

If American services and platforms have become unreliable and untrustworthy because the American government is erratic, then it's only natural that European organisations will look for alternatives.

DirectX is a funny one to list because 90% of Windows games run on Linux. WINE and Proton solve that problem for you:

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nearly-90-percen...