Microsoft could do it like some other companies do it, like League of Legends in China which is leased (the whole software) to another company and not hosted by

Microsoft could do it like some other companies do it, like League of Legends in China which is leased (the whole software) to another company and not hosted by Riot Games. (well it was like that in the past, hosted by tencent until the company took over riot as a whole. but sea servers are still provided by garena as far as I know) Currently Microsoft already has a partnership with Deutsche Telekom in Germany (https://cloud.telekom.de/software/office-365/ https://cloud.telekom.de/software/office-365/) and they could easily lease the whole Office365 suite to Telekom, but that means that they get less money (at the moment it is still operated by microsoft and telekom is only there for additional trust and control). At the moment Office365 by Telekom is still hosted by Microsoft and Azure Germany is hosted by Microsoft aswell, but I guess they could lease it, if they really need to.