{"id":12108,"date":"2026-01-28T07:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/the-french-government-is-ditching-zoom-and-microsoft-teams-for-a-home-grown-alternative\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:02:45","slug":"the-french-government-is-ditching-zoom-and-microsoft-teams-for-a-home-grown-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/the-french-government-is-ditching-zoom-and-microsoft-teams-for-a-home-grown-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"The French government is ditching Zoom and Microsoft Teams for a home-grown alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The French government is saying <em>au revoir <\/em>to Microsoft Teams and Zoom as it embraces a home-grown alternative. By next year, civil servants across all departments will have switched to French videoconference platform Visio, as <em>EuroNews<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">As with Teams and Zoom, Visio has an AI-powered transcription tool. Visio runs on a French company&#8217;s cloud infrastructure as well. The platform has around 40,000 users and it&#8217;s been in testing for the last year. The government expects the switch to help reduce costs by as much as \u20ac1 million ($1.2 million) each year for every 100,000 users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The decision to ditch Microsoft Teams and Zoom is part of a broader effort to rely less on foreign software services \u2014 particularly US ones. 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