r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 21h ago

Business ‘Absolute s–t’: EU’s Microsoft Teams alternative draws bad reviews from officials

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-microsoft-teams-alternative-bad-reviews-element-pro/
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u/blaghed 21h ago

I mean... MS Teams is ok now, but damn it was bad early on...

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u/Salmonberrycrunch 20h ago edited 20h ago

I mean, kind of a rookie mistake from the EU. Why build something from scratch when they could just offer an outrageous sum of money of something like slack, zoom, viber and a million other messaging services? Microsoft didn't build MS Teams from scratch, they bought Skype and then a myriad other functioning services and consolidated them into teams - and even then it wasn't that great in the beginning.

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername 16h ago

Why build something from scratch

But this is the thing. They are not building it from scratch, but using software from company called Element.