{"id":1002780,"date":"2026-04-13T11:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002780"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:53:10","slug":"france-says-no-to-microsoft-windows-and-the-reason-is-america-says-we-want-to-regain-control-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/13\/france-says-no-to-microsoft-windows-and-the-reason-is-america-says-we-want-to-regain-control-of\/","title":{"rendered":"France says no to Microsoft Windows and the reason is America; says: We want to regain control of &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France is trying to move on from Microsoft Windows. In a move, which is part of a broader European movement to reduce reliance on American tech, France has announced that it is dropping Microsoft Windows in favor of Linux. According to a report in Tech Crunch, France plans to move its workstations from Windows to the open-source Linux. Although homegrown alternatives aren&#8217;t available in many areas, the European Union (EU) seems prepared to wean itself off where it can.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, French minister David Amiel reportedly said that the effort was to \u201cregain control of our digital destiny\u201d by relying less on U.S. tech companies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France is trying to move on from Microsoft Windows. In a move, which is part of a broader European movement to reduce reliance on American tech, France has announced that it is dropping Microsoft Windows in favor of Linux. According to a report in Tech Crunch, France plans to move its workstations from Windows to the open-source Linux. Although homegrown alternatives aren&#8217;t available in many areas, the European Union (EU) seems prepared to wean itself off where it can. In a statement, French minister David Amiel reportedly said that the effort was to \u201cregain control of our digital destiny\u201d by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}