France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins
Summary
France's DINUM-led initiative aims to cut extra-European digital dependencies by migrating workstations to Linux and adopting sovereign tools. The plan includes ministerial action, European interoperability efforts, and concrete migrations (80,000 CNAM agents to sovereign tools; health data platform to a trusted solution) to strengthen IT security and sovereignty, with a phased timeline and public-private coalitions.