The Great Gallic Exodus: Inside France’s Bold Mission to Ditch Microsoft for Linux

The report outlines France's strategic roadmap to achieve digital sovereignty by progressively replacing Microsoft Windows and American SaaS with Linux, open-source tools, and a proprietary government productivity suite called “La Suite” (hosted on Outscale). DINUM, ANSSI and other agencies will coordinate migration guidance and ministry-level transformation plans, with targets such as mandatory adoption of Visio by 2027 and broad piloting across tens of thousands of civil servants; the initiative is framed as a geopolitical and security-driven effort rather than a cost-saving exercise.