Zut alors! French government to ditch Zoom and Microsoft Teams in favor of homegrown tech, following security and snooping fears

• France will replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with domestic Visio platform
• Visio has been tested for a year and supports forty thousand users
• Visio’s AI transcription and speaker diarization are powered by French start-up Pyannote

The French government has confirmed it will replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with a domestically developed video conferencing platform named Visio.

The switch is scheduled to roll out across all government departments by 2027 and forms part of a broader strategy to reduce reliance on foreign software vendors.

Officials cited concerns about security, data sovereignty, and the potential for foreign surveillance as primary motivations for the move.