France plans to replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with domestic platform

France plans to roll out Visio, its own video conferencing platform, across all government departments by 2027, replacing Microsoft Teams and Zoom. The move is part of a broader effort to reduce reliance on foreign software, especially from the U.S., Euronews reported.

The French government said the decision aims to strengthen control over critical digital infrastructure and improve the security and confidentiality of official communications. According to Minister for the Civil Service and State Reform David Amiel, the goal is to end the use of non-European solutions and rely on a sovereign technology platform. The government also said that using Visio could save up to €1 million per year in licensing costs for every 100,000 users.

Visio has been tested for about a year and currently has around 40,000 users. It is part of France’s «Suite Numérique» project, which provides domestically developed digital tools to replace American IT products such as Gmail and Slack for civil servants.

The platform includes AI-based features such as meeting transcription and speaker identification, developed using technology from the French startup Pyannote. It is hosted on sovereign cloud infrastructure operated by Outscale, a subsidiary of the French software company Dassault Systèmes.