Positive News: France has announced its plan to ditch Windows & switch to Linux for government desktops.

[pinhman@humanwords.party]

@Tutanota @carrieberry Meanwhile Canada continues to support Microsoft with almost a B$illion

https://www.canada.ca/en/shared-services/corporate/about-us/transparency/publications/enables-modern-accessible-service.html

[ovoao@mastodon.social]

@PapaFatHead @Tutanota

Yeah, I wonder what office suite they will use.

[groovezilla@mastodon.social]

@vanlug France leads the way!

Au revoir US big tech.

[starluna@mastodon.social]

@ethanbvg Thank you for the explanation. I saw the reference to that and I was confused for a minute because Visio is also a Microsoft product that makes flow charts and things like that.

[criticalangle@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota i love this, viva la france!

[perrym@newsie.social]

@Tutanota I've always had respect for France's superior cuisine and now intelligence!

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota

It is the only option for independence and safety and integrity of our data.

The whole EU needs to follow.

[grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@starluna @Tutanota

Croissants.

[corse_pia@pouet.chapril.org]

@Tutanota
I agree with @elduvelle

it's a very small part of what should be done.
Far from that, I wait to see which budget will be given for those tasks (and It's quite difficult In France right now on this purpose)

there is ONE important move that could be done to explain that France is wishing to leave GAFAM

President Macron could stop communicating on X ( but he doesn't and will not)

last things : should we talk about France dependencies when it comes to cloud ??

[rupertreynolds@hachyderm.io]

@Tutanota Vive la France !

[phillipplays@retro-gaiden.com]

@Tutanota that's very big!

[dianea@lgbtqia.space]

@Tutanota

Considering that Microsoft products are astonishingly bad, it is about time. Maybe a few decades too late, but this is the second best time.

[kaika1975@mastoot.fr]

@elduvelle @Tutanota
Few weeks ago I read in paper that some big cities as Toulouse had rejected windows in their administration. Little by little it’s on move but it requires a lot of change and it can’t be done very fast

[parikhparth23@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota the biggest problem is with chat and video apps - theres no better alternative thanbig corps

[mukto_manob@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota we need to start doing the same here in the UK, specially for the NHS where a good amount of money is spent on software licensing.

#UK #nhs

[techunt@mastodon.social]

@pr06lefs @Tutanota The fact you need an up-to-date, un-rooted, safetynet enabled Android or iPhone for most banking apps is one of my biggest gripes.
We can have administrative privileges everywhere, just not our phones?
What a cruel joke

[donchacale@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota
formidable!!!

[stepphy202@mastodon.social]

Hi, how are you doing today?.

[susanpotter@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota finally one government in Europe is getting serious about the Big Tech threat. More please.

[jcktmn@outerheaven.club]

@starluna @Tutanota my guess would probably be jitsi