--- title: France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to... description: France is mandating all government departments switch to Visio, an MIT-licensed open source videoconferencing platform, by 2027 to replace US-based tools like... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/france-just-created-its-own-open-source-alternative-to-microsoft-teams-and-zoom-w2mj24r3x twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom | daily.dev og:description: France is mandating all government departments switch to Visio, an MIT-licensed open source videoconferencing platform, by 2027 to replace US-based tools like... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/france-just-created-its-own-open-source-alternative-to-microsoft-teams-and-zoom-w2mj24r3x og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/w2Mj24R3x.png og:image:alt: France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom **[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary France is mandating all government departments switch to Visio, an MIT-licensed open source videoconferencing platform, by 2027 to replace US-based tools like Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Part of the La Suite Numérique initiative, Visio has been tested with 40,000 users and runs on French infrastructure for data sovereignty. The move follows similar European efforts, though critics note neighboring countries like Germany and Denmark are achieving greater cost savings by also replacing Microsoft Office with LibreOffice. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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