France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins
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- The French government is accelerating efforts to reduce its digital dependencies on non-European providers.
- A seminar organized by DINUM, DGE, ANSSI, and DAE set a clear objective to reduce these dependencies, involving ministers, administrations, public operators, and private actors.
- Concrete steps include DINUM switching from Windows to Linux, and the National Health Insurance migrating 80,000 employees to sovereign tools (Tchap, Visio, FranceTransfert).
- A new method involves forming coalitions between ministries, public operators, and private actors to collectively exit dependencies, leveraging digital commons and interoperability standards.
- DINUM will coordinate an inter-ministerial plan, with each ministry required to formalize its own plan by autumn, covering areas like workstations, collaborative tools, antivirus, AI, databases, virtualization, and network equipment.
- Mapping and diagnosis of dependencies by DAE, and defining a European digital service by DGE, will refine reduction targets with clear timelines.
- The first 'digital industrial meetings' in June 2026 will concretize public-private coalitions, including a 'public-private alliance for European sovereignty'.