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France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials (numerique.gouv.fr)
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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 188 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Kind of funny considering that Visio is the name of another Microsoft product.

ETA: I'm not defending Microsoft's usage of the term 'Visio' here. The French use of that term makes a lot of sense, and Microsoft has an annoying tendency of using and copyrighting very common terms like 'Word' or 'SQL Server'. And France (or the French government) should be allowed to use it for their video conferencing software. I'm just smiling at the idea of some people opening Microsoft Visio by mistake and trying to figure out how to make a call through a diagramming app.

[–] turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub 1 points 6 days ago

People who use Visio, probably wont even have (the wrong) Visio installed. There shouldn’t be any confusion.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 73 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Microslop can cry about it.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I doubt they will care that much. But it will create a bit of confusion, at least for since in the short-term.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 weeks ago

And because of that confusion they will have a trademark complaint

[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

It’s also a French word that means video conference (as a shortened form of visioconférence).

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 16 points 3 weeks ago

Gosh, someone should tell the Microsoft teams team that Microsoft teams for business and Microsoft teams for personal and Microsoft teams for students are also using the same names and make communication difficult. They should get a copilot team on it

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 13 points 3 weeks ago

In that case we'll call it Frisio, French Visio.