France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push
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France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push
"The directive covers operating systems, collaborative tools, cloud infrastructure, and artificial intelligence platforms, marking a significant move towards digital sovereignty for France."
"All other ministries, including their operators and affiliated bodies, must produce their own reduction plans before autumn 2026, addressing eight categories of dependency."
"No specific Linux distribution has been named, allowing individual ministries the flexibility to choose their migration path within the framework established by DINUM."
"La Suite Numérique, a stack of sovereign productivity tools developed by DINUM, includes Tchap and Visio, already deployed to over 600,000 civil servants."
France's Interministerial Digital Directorate announced a migration from Windows to Linux for its workstations, mandating all ministries to create plans to eliminate extra-European digital dependencies by autumn 2026. This directive encompasses operating systems, collaborative tools, cloud infrastructure, and AI platforms. Following a previous mandate to replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with the domestic Visio platform, this initiative represents a significant step towards digital sovereignty. Ministries must address eight categories of dependency, while DINUM will implement its own migration strategy using sovereign productivity tools like La Suite Numérique.
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