🇫🇷 FRANCE JUST FIRED MICROSOFT.


2.5 million government devices. Off Windows. Onto Linux.
This isn't a pilot. Every ministry has been ordered to submit a migration plan by autumn 2026. The OS, cloud infrastructure, AI platforms, collaboration tools. All of it.
The minister's words: "We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, and our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, and risks we do not control."
They already replaced Teams and Zoom with a homegrown video tool. Health data is moving off American cloud by end of year.
And this isn't even new ground for France. Their national police force already moved 100,000 devices to a custom Linux build. Saves €2M a year in licensing.
If this works, every EU government is watching.
Microsoft has not commented.
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