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Teams is KILLING my Mac Every Day
Hi everyone, we're pleased to announce Microsoft Teams for Apple Silicon, which on the M1/M2 ARM builds, will have significantly faster performance than what's seen during the Rosetta emulation today! Here's our official roadmap ID for this release; Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365. More on this can be found here; Announcing Microsoft Teams optimized for Apple silicon - Microsoft Tech Community.
Users should see a significant performance boost with this release. And for the Intel Macs out there, we're still thinking about you! We have some large performance fixes coming that will help improve overall performance for the Intel version as well.
Thanks,
Sam Cosby, Teams Engineering PM
Micha1680 I have to agree I have a iMac (intel) bought in April 2020. Its been shutting down randomly ever since and I now believe that teams may be part of the problem. Apple reinstalled software on it, then installed new logic and the issue still happens. It happens if I run teams in a browser (Safari, Chrome, Edge - suggested by MS when I submitted a help request!) or in the app. Initially the fan was sounding very loud an although that doesn't happen now, I still believe its a hogger. Today my Mac made a truly awful sound for about 30 seconds and froze, and then shutdown. I work remotely and teams is our means of communication. The only way I can use it is to use the app on my iPad and mirror it to my Mac (so that the share screens are readable. I think this is pretty deplorable (and arrogant) of MS
We have just moved to using Teams in the past week or so and we all use iMacs, Mac Minis or MacBooks and the majority of us find that the Teams app is unusable. It either slows the machine down so much that even everyday tasks are impossible or it crashes the OS completely.
Using the web app is slightly better but not really the point is it? An app that is supposed to be the all singing and dancing product to make your business more productive and organised cripples your computer into oblivion!
Not good Microsoft.. not good at all.