French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft
10 months ago
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- Fedora 43 may drop UEFI boot support for MBR.
- European countries are increasingly rejecting Microsoft due to concerns over data privacy and digital sovereignty.
- Denmark is transitioning from Office 365 to LibreOffice; Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) is shifting from Windows to Linux.
- Lyon, France, is moving away from Microsoft software, adopting open-source alternatives like ONLYOFFICE and Linux.
- Lyon launched Territoire Numérique Ouvert (TNO), an open-source platform with tools like Jitsi, Nextcloud, and Matrix.
- TNO is used by thousands of employees in French local governments, hosted in regional data centers for data control.
- The project received €2 million in funding from ANCT.