Microsoft Teams, one of the world’s leading communication platforms, has been completely renovated. Mainly, when it comes to its performance. It is not a secret that the application not only consumed a considerable amount of resources on the computer, but also had certain flaws that affected its operation.
Those of Redmond know very well that, if they really intend to become the benchmark in such a competitive sector, they had to solve these problems as soon as possible. In fact, they recognize that a large part of the complaints about the service have to do, precisely, with its slowness and the excessive consumption of resources, especially RAM and battery.
“We heard that it is extremely slow, that it eats up the battery and that it consumes a lot of memory. We read all these comments.”
For this reason, those of Redmond decided to make significant changes. They developed the computer application from scratch, prioritizing performance above all else.
What benefits can you notice with this renewed version of Microsoft Teams? In a statement shared with The Verge, the company says that the app is faster. In addition, it takes up half the resources than before.
“The new Teams is faster, simpler, and more flexible than ever. We have made great strides in performance and usability. The new Teams is 2 times faster and uses 50% less resources.»
After the update, Microsoft Teams will be up to 3 times faster when you open the app or when you join a conversation. Regarding the issue of resources, it will consume half the RAM memory and occupy up to 70% less storage spaceeither. This, without a doubt, will be very well received by those people whose computers are fair in technical characteristics.
How have these huge leaps in performance been achieved? Microsoft Teams got rid of Electrona framework which, although it includes a good number of tools to create desktop applications with JavaScript, consumes resources abusively. The Redmond people developed the new app with WebView2, which is part of Microsoft Edge. In fact, when you are using the communication service, you will be sharing some resources with the browser.
When it comes to the user interface, the new Microsoft Teams dropped AngularJS to adopt Reactwhich has also had a positive effect on the general functioning of the application.
And speaking of the interface, in this sense there are also new features. Microsoft, over the past few months, has been putting efforts into expanding on the visual style introduced in Windows 11. Therefore, many elements of the operating system are now present in Microsoft Teams.
On the other hand now it will be possible to view all your accounts and notifications from a new dropdown menu. Yeah, no more having to log out and log in multiple times.
Finally, Microsoft Teams will join the artificial intelligence fever. A few days ago they detailed how the service will join forces with GPT-4, the new generation of the OpenAI language model. Specifically, Copilot will be in charge of offering you summaries and transcripts of meetings.
At the moment, the renewal of Microsoft Teams is only available in beta through the Public Preview program. The company also promises to release an improved version of the variant for macOS.