{"id":1004200,"date":"2026-04-22T07:45:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004200"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:29:20","slug":"france-ditches-windows-for-linux-to-move-away-from-american-tools-mirroring-a-shift-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/22\/france-ditches-windows-for-linux-to-move-away-from-american-tools-mirroring-a-shift-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"France ditches Windows for Linux to move away from American tools, mirroring a shift in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France has announced that it is migrating 2.5 million government workstations from Microsoft Windows to Linux in what many called an act of digital defiance. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, and our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, and risks we do not control,&#8221; said French budget minister David Amiel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has announced that it is migrating 2.5 million government workstations from Microsoft Windows to Linux in what many called an act of digital defiance. &#8220;We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, and our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, and risks we do not control,&#8221; said French budget minister David Amiel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004200","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}