France Tees Up Big Public Sector Move Away From US Tech

European Governments Grow Suspicious of Silicon Valley David Meyer • April 13, 2026

France's abandonment of American software for open-source alternatives continues apace, with all government ministries now facing a fall deadline for outlining plans to reduce their dependence on U.S. tech.

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France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs - known by its French acronym as DINUM - earlier this year announced a broad public-sector shift from U.S. videoconferencing services to a homegrown platform called Visio. Now the department itself is going to make a far deeper migration: it's ditching Microsoft's Windows operating system for Linux.

DINUM revealed the move at a Wednesday seminar it held with the National Cybersecurity Agency of France and state procurement officials, marking "an acceleration of the French and European strategy for digital sovereignty."

The French government "must break ...