daisykutter@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 3 months 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-square42linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkFrance will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officialsnumerique.gouv.frdaisykutter@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square42linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMultiplexer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months 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-up0·3 months 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-up0·3 months agoIn this case it might be the biggest “Fuck You” towards Microsoft that they could think of - and I am totally into that! :-)
minus-squarevdbm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoI agree. But it is a draft name. I am sure they will come up with something better.
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! :-)
I agree. But it is a draft name. I am sure they will come up with something better.