This was long overdue.
Microsoft Office should be next.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
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It's opensource ! https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet
uhhhh on github :(
It's open source and they have documentation for self-hosting it !
They could just use https://www.opendesk.eu/en and join the German D-Stack https://gitlab.opencode.de/dstack/d-stack-home
Nah, a little healthy competition is good for growth.
The tone of these comments as weird.
I agree, it was the same on reddit.
To be fair, I find the idea of a government outsourcing IT needs to entities under the sovereignty of foreign governments kind of fundamentally problematic to begin with.
i wonder if Isreal designed it for them.
If it is Israel it’s the same picture
Why do european tech companies need to call their products the same name as already established american products. Don't they google the names before they make the decision?
It's the French common name for this, visioconférence. Why would they care about Microsoft products for this?
Visio is an outdated spreadsheet name, in English.
Visio is the new video conferencing software, in French.
France leads the world, it is up to everyone else to worry about conflict with France, not the other way around. /s
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Trump is amazing. He literally destroys anything he touches and still get rewarded for it. Just wow.
Edit: Destroys casinos and hotels. Gets rewarded a tv show. Destroy multiple brands. Get rewarded the presidency. Destroys so many American lives. Gets rewarded the presidency a second time. Destroys the United States and it's ties with it's allies. Gets rewarded with untold billions.
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No mention of Capgemini on the announcement, there's a chance this will actually ship!
Never heard of jitsi?
Good on them, but I Wonder why they can't just build on top of something open source like Nextcloud.
It already has the majority of the Office-365 suite
It is open source and built on top of livekit which is open source.
All the tools of "La Suite Numerique" are open source.
Because the French government is hell bent on saving money, but they don't care about anyone's privacy at all. I wouldn't be surprised if they are building a privacy nightmare system here. Having said that, at least they are removing Microslop, and anything that could potentially hurt Microslop in any way, shape or form, is a good thing.
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I don't know on what it's based on, but it's open source and audited.
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Once these countries leave, they'll never go back. And then the rest of us get better alternatives to this enshitification model.
Also improves Teams/slows the enshitifcation. It's harder to make the product bad when it's hardly a monopoly.
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Who tells them that "Visio" is already a trademark?
Do you know what happens to trademarks and patents when a country starts threatening its (previous) allies with military invasion and tradewars, and start undermining the values of those allies? You're right! It goes into the square hole! Heck, maybe I'm going to start a new software company tomorrow called Microsoft, and then threaten left and right with all crazy shit if anybody complains. Nobody will care about US trademarks since US disqualified itself by now.
Trademarks don't matter when it's only for internal use.
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