The French government has announced the full rollout of Visio, a domestically developed video conferencing platform that will replace Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and other non-European tools across all state administrations by 2027.
The move is part of France’s strategic push to regain control over critical digital infrastructure and reduce reliance on foreign, particularly US, software vendors.
The formal announcement was made earlier today by David Amiel, Minister Delegate for the Public Service and State Reform, during a visit to the CNRS’s I2BC research facility in Île-de-France. He was joined by Stéphanie Schaer, director of the French Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM), which developed Visio, and Alain Schuhl, Deputy Director General of CNRS.
Visio has been under testing for the past year and already counts over 40,000 regular users. It is now being deployed to 200,000 public agents, with major institutions, including CNRS, the Ministry of the Armed Forces, Assurance Maladie, and the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP), among the first to adopt it in early 2026. CNRS alone will migrate its 34,000 employees and 120,000 affiliated researchers off Zoom by the end of March.
Visio is part of the Suite Numérique, a broader digital ecosystem of sovereign tools created to replace widely used services like Google Meet, Slack, and Gmail within the French public sector. These tools are accessible exclusively via ProConnect, the secure authentication system for public servants, and are not available to the general public or private companies.
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Oh I dunno, it's been ages since I've heard of it used or used office, I didn't know if it was still a product, thought it was deprecated.
I realized you're probably referring to Microsoft Visio! That's, of course, an MS product. There's a completely different product called Visio that's a standalone video conferencing tool.