Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over
by wolvoleo on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:52AM
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They renewed every contract, but the French government is hard at work at replacements for Microsoft stuff, called 'la suite'. The Germans are doing the same under the name 'opendesk' and the suite shares a lot of common tools in fact.
This predates Trump II by the way, they did have more foresight than a lot of EU institutions.
Things have changed for sure but big ships take long to turn.
Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over
by glitchc on Saturday February 21, 2026 @11:24AM
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This is sabre rattling and everyone knows it. A municipality in Germany already tried switching to open source. They're back on Office and Sharepoint.
Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over
by wolvoleo on Saturday February 21, 2026 @11:32AM
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This is a lot bigger than one municipality. And with the Munich thing there was a lot of dodgy lobbying going on. Like Microsoft suddenly moving their HQ there. Then a new mayor came in that was suddenly all pro-Microsoft.
La suite is a lot bigger than that. And parts are actually being used already. They recently started using the meeting component called visio.
Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over
by Saline9515 on Saturday February 21, 2026 @01:53PM
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There are already credible alternatives, from the EU, which do not require rebuilding everything from scratch. OnlyOffice, for instance. The french government's job isn't to write a new office SaaS suite.
A Microsoft official explained during a french parliamentary session that he couldn't guarantee that the State data was safe from US requests. It created a shockwave, as everyone discovered what was evident from the start.
Of course, nothing happened, and they renewed every contract since then. We could talk about the F35 procurement.