France plans to phase out American videoconferencing services such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom within a year and replace them with a domestically developed app, Minister Delegate for the Civil Service David Amiel said on Saturday. The new app, called Visio, will be rolled out within the French government by 2027, with Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu expected to formalize the move via a circular; officials cited data-sovereignty and security amid US cloud dominance.
France, Denmark, many other countries:
We’ll have it done in a couple months.
German government:
It’s impossible to stop using US services and if it can be done at all it’ll take like decades.
OpenDesk, which is basically a German project to combine a number of Open Source projects. They got some rather large users already like the military. There seems to be a lot of interest in it as well. That suit includes a number of tools to replace Teams.
If they even tried they would make it take decades…
Doubtful.
Login via Microsoft can be replaced within a couple months, at most, for example.
If they’d just start, they’d get there, but there still just saying it is almost impossible. Will probably happen at some point, though.
Remember Maut and Telematikinfrastruktur im Gesundheitswesen. It’ll take decades.
Have you Seen how long stuft Luke that takes in germany. First everyone will complain about how they need to change their habits before anything even gets changed. Maybe the technical part is easy but the people part isn’t
Did no one tell them that MS already has an app called Visio.
I was gonna say! They’re replacing conferencing software with… diagramming software?
But hey Msft tried to steal “office” and “windows”, so fuck em.
Yeah, they can’t own all common names
It’s awesome, but seems only accessible by the gov at the moment
What other alternatives are there to Zoom, Teams and FaceTime? I’ve used Jitsi in the past but something changed (I can’t remember what) and had difficulty with whatever instances I knew of and had to stop using it.
Signal and Whereby both do video calls.
