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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.

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[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Melchior@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Micromot@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If they even tried they would make it take decades...

[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Remember Maut and Telematikinfrastruktur im Gesundheitswesen. It'll take decades.

[–] Micromot@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

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

[–] sprack@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did no one tell them that MS already has an app called Visio.

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was gonna say! They're replacing conferencing software with... diagramming software?

But hey Msft tried to steal "office" and "windows", so fuck em.

[–] MXC48@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, they can't own all common names

[–] AurelienJ@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It’s awesome, but seems only accessible by the gov at the moment

[–] Chimrod@jlai.lu 4 points 3 days ago
[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] peregrinus@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Signal and Whereby both do video calls.