Microsoft claims Microsoft Teams for Windows 11 is now significantly faster due to improvements in the code
Does Microsoft Teams seem faster? It’s likely because it is according to new data posted by Microsoft.
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People who useMicrosoft Teamstend to have a love/hate relationship with the prevalent work collaboration app (which is nowfive years old). While the app enables employees to work together remotely, Microsoft’s insistence on relying on cross-platform web tools like Electron often means performance is not as ideal as a “pure” native app would be in Windows. (The same problem plagues Microsoft’s competitor, Slack, too.)
But the company appears to be making significant inroads in improving the performance of its Teams app (specifically the business version of Microsoft Teams integrated into Windows 11). Ina new blog postwritten by Mark Longton, an explanation of how the group of developers behind the app make things just a bit zippier.
Longton notes that the company has been working hard over the past year to improve “overall interaction responsiveness time” to create a “more fluid experience for the user.”
In more technical terms, the Teams app has transitioned from Angular framework to React, upgraded the build of Electron, reduced re-rendering, and made “incremental improvements to the code.”
But what about real-world data as to the results of such changes? Luckily, Longton shared that as well, and there is plenty of it:
While some of those numbers are on the smaller side, e.g., just 9% for navigating to the ‘Pre-meeting join’ screen, it’s the overall experience that matters, and it seems clear that Teams is undoubtedly in a better spot today compared to a year ago.
Longton closes out, remarking that these changes complement the up to 50% reduction in power consumption in Microsoft Team meetingsposted in February.
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