France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

kept by eddie feb 04

France announced 2.5 million civil servants will stop using US video-conference tools like Zoom and Teams by 2027, switching to a homegrown service called Visio.

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also on Microsoft Teams, #open-source
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