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 Replaces Teams And Zoom With Visio
https://www.letsdatascience.com/news/france-replaces-teams-and-zoom-with-visio-9abc6ebb
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erebion@news.erebion.eu · 19 pts · 220d
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.
Micromot@piefed.social · 2 pts · 219d
If they even tried they would make it take decades...
erebion@news.erebion.eu · 2 pts · 219d
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 they're still just saying it is almost impossible. Will probably happen at some point, though.
Micromot@piefed.social · 2 pts · 219d
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
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org · 1 pts · 217d
Remember Maut and Telematikinfrastruktur im Gesundheitswesen. It'll take decades.
Melchior@feddit.org · 1 pts · 218d
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.
rraggl@mastodon.nl · 0 pts · 218d
@erebion Netherlands has a lot of the same approach. Endless discussions. Now finally they seem to wake up but as soon as the media attention goes away I fear the need to change will go away with it. Here there is added urgency as the eID service that you need to do all kinds of things related to government called DigiD is about to be sold to the US too.
Incomprehensible how the Netherlands consequently fails to protect such strategic companies. All for profit, I guess...
erebion@news.erebion.eu · 1 pts · 218d
Sounds like the main differences between Germany and Netherlands is that one has better cycling infrastructure, but otherwise it's the same, lol
sprack@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 220d
Did no one tell them that MS already has an app called Visio.
vonbaronhans@midwest.social · 8 pts · 220d
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 pts · 217d
Yeah, they can't own all common names
Chimrod@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 220d
https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet
AurelienJ@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 219d
It’s awesome, but seems only accessible by the gov at the moment
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 219d
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 pts · 218d
Signal and Whereby both do video calls.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 218d
Thank you!