daisykutter@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 3 days agoFrance will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officialsnumerique.gouv.frexternal-linkmessage-square41linkfedilinkarrow-up1111arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareMultiplexer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoI am pretty sure that Microsoft won’t let them use the name of one of their products for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visio I just hope the rest of the project is more well-grounded than the name selection seems to have been…
minus-squarewhyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoIn french this kind of applications are used for “Visioconférence” so I doubt they could do anything about this https://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/traduction/visioconférence.html
minus-squareMultiplexer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoIn this case it might be the biggest “Fuck You” towards Microsoft that they could think of - and I am totally into that! :-)
I am pretty sure that Microsoft won’t let them use the name of one of their products for this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visio
I just hope the rest of the project is more well-grounded than the name selection seems to have been…
In french this kind of applications are used for “Visioconférence” so I doubt they could do anything about this
https://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/traduction/visioconférence.html
In this case it might be the biggest “Fuck You” towards Microsoft that they could think of - and I am totally into that! :-)