France to replace Teams and Zoom with domestic platform Visio by 2027
The French government will roll out the homegrown Visio videoconferencing platform across all departments to reduce reliance on US vendors and boost digital sovereignty.
- France will phase out Microsoft Teams and Zoom in government and deploy Visio across all departments by 2027.
- Visio has been in testing for about a year and currently serves roughly 40,000 users.
- The platform is part of the Suite Numérique and is intended for civil servants only, not for public or private company use.
- Visio uses Pyannote AI for meeting transcripts and speaker diarization and is hosted on Outscale's sovereign cloud infrastructure, a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes.
- The government estimates the switch could save up to €1 million per 100,000 users each year.
- Officials framed the move as a push for digital sovereignty amid concerns about foreign surveillance and recent US cloud outages in Europe