France reportedly drops Google and Microsoft from 2.5M government computers as EU digital sovereignty push grows
alifcoder · x · 2026-09-19
A viral thread claims France has wiped Google and Microsoft off 2.5 million government computers, Germany moved 30,000 PCs off Windows, and Denmark dropped Microsoft Office — with the author promising a breakdown of what each country switched to (typically Linux, LibreOffice, Nextcloud and other open-source alternatives). The figures come from the EU digital-sovereignty movement and are not officially confirmed, but reflect a real ongoing trend of European governments migrating to open-source stacks.
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