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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
Same here. Machine becomes unusable in a teams call of any size. Interestingly the call will start of fine. But then after a few seconds to a few minutes other peoples video starts flickering and everything becomes sluggish then unusable. I swear this wasn't a problem 6+ months ago though.
sbriggs This describes my situation too. After a minute or so the video starts juddering, the video panel starts flickering, everything bogs down, typing in the chat window becomes delayed. Today the audio was affected too with voices obscured by a repetitive noise ("buzzing" at 3 or 4 times per second). I left it and the problems mostly went away after 5 minutes but it does keep happening. I also didn't see this happening before December (though Teams has always absolutely hammered my CPU and battery life).
- I'm going to try running an Azure Virtual Desktop, with teams in it, to see if that helps. Happily I am the CTO at work, so I can spend this money and tell the MSP set it up without having to beg too many people for permission. I'll report if it works or not.
