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Microsoft’s global outage has disrupted email used by parts of Greece’s civil service, while its basic systems remain operational, the country’s digital governance minister says. He argued that the disruption shows why countries need alternative systems.

Dimitris Papastergiou said Outlook, Teams and Microsoft’s Copilot were affected, but Greece was not facing severe overall problems. His comments, reported by eKathimerini, make this a practical example of how reliance on one provider can become a government resilience question. The immediate impact appears limited, but the question of alternatives is a bigger one: should public services build backup systems, even when that means paying to maintain tools they may rarely need?

Discuss: Should governments maintain alternative systems for essential digital services, even if they are rarely used?

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