I think people miss the point about sovreignity.

Part of what got Microsoft into this position in the first place is that they built and sold software.

Now, they don't build and sell software, they sell services. Services means you're buying access to data.

The data is the problem.

There's a certain amount of soft power you have when you can disallow access to data and services for foreign officials[0] arbitrarily.

The old world order would of course permit us to sanction new sales of things, but in the new world: this is crucially tied with current access to services.

I think the easiest way to think about it is:

Would you depend on another nation selling you the parts to build a power plant, or would you prefer to depend on them supplying you the power- in fact it's worse than that because not only are you buying power you're also giving up a lot of information on who uses it, how it's used, and enough control to cut it off for an individual person.. totally crazy.

the EU itself was designed around the idea that if you are crucially tied in this way then war becomes unthinkable. But that only works when you're equivalently sized entities. The US uses this position to bully the world.