Just a friendly reminder that Politico is owned by the same guy who recently gave an award to Peter Thiel.

“I don’t understand the added value here,” one official wrote on an internal staff message board, seen by POLITICO. Another described the tool as “absolute shit.”

Which is basically the exact sort of reaction you get any time anything changes about any software ever.

I could give my parents new light switches that also make toast and clean the windows, and my dad would complain about them being 0.2cm too narrow.

To summarize: an unnamed official, let’s call him “Brad”, got to participate in a trial for a new sovereign office tool. According to Brad, the new tool was “absolute s—t” and he still prefers working with good ‘ol Teams (cuz ‘reasons’).

Thanks, Brad. And thanks Politico for this entertaining, yet remarkably useless bit of trivia.

They are citing four unnamed 'officials' and there is not a single detail explaining why exactly it is "s--t" ...

If the officials do not see the added value in having sovereign software and infrastructure, I have to seriously doubt their qualification. Sure, Element isn't perfect but no concrete mention of what isn't working is made. That's not very constructive. Software isn't static. You can change it.

It’s not as if Microsoft Teams is not absolute shite

Absolute shit sounds like a big improvement over Teams, I'll take it!

Reads pretty much like the sh--it Amazon rewiews... 1 star, I have no clue what I bought and how to use it. Also won't write down any details about what's wrong with it.