@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social
2026-02-21 16:30 UTC
Also in June of 2025, the French city of Lyon announced it would also stop using Microsoft Office for its 10,000 employees, and switch to an ##OpenSource software alternative. City officials pointed to licensing costs, end-of-life transition costs for version changes, and control of their own data, were reasons cited.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/one-of-frances-largest-cities-has-now-also-ditched-microsoft-for-open-source-software
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@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social 2026-02-21 16:39
Previously reported by yours truly, in January of 2026, France announced they would cancel Microsoft Teams for all national government employees and instead move to an OSS alternative that also stored all data on French cloud services. #FOSS https://www.zdnet.com/article/france-dumps-teams-zoom-digital-sovereignty-replacement/