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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
shilocase just want to jump into this thread to comment that, as of today, 5th of April 2022, Teams is still completely melting down my MAC. I don't know if you guys are mining Bitcoin with Teams or what else but the outcome remains the same, fans spinning like hell, computer about to meltdown, and all other apps almost impossible to use while meeting on Teams. I've fully removed the Teams app from my MAC and started using the web version instead, but it's the same or worse. Adding a blurred background in a meet with just 3 other people is enough to cause all of these problems at once, like from the very moment the meet starts.
Hope you can do something about this, as most of us are using Teams by force in our workplaces, so there's nothing we can do except continue to work until our MACs literally liquefy.
Thank you for your time.
This evening, I saw the necessity to add to this thread as well.
I am currently running a 2021 16" M1 Pro MacBook pro, with 32 GB of RAM. Current Mac OS version is 12.3.1, and I scan and clean it every single day. There is nothing more I can do to keep it in tip-top running condition, and STILL, MS-Teams latest version 1.5.00.8073 is hanging the MacBook, when screen-sharing to an audience.
Symptoms include:
- A sudden and complete lack of audio, with neither me nor my Teams cohort to hear each other;
- Near total App unresponsiveness - including an inability to force-quit MS-Teams. This necessitates a hard-reboot of the MacBook pro;
- CPU overheating, even with maximum fan speed.
If it weren't for my company's arbitrary decision to integrate Office 365 into its entire operations and force staff onto MS-Teams, I would be much more inclined to use Skype or Zoom, or even FaceTime.
To put it in brutally blunt terms, using MS-Teams for Mac on a daily basis is a painful, embarrassing and ire-inducing experience.
I do very much hope and expect that the software engineering team/s within Microsoft get serious and solve these operability issues on a Mac, once and for all.
Until then, I will continue to avoid using MS-Teams as much as possible, and encourage my clients to use Skype, Zoom or FaceTime instead.
This issue is a point of shame for Microsoft.
I do not use the Teams app. I run Teams in Edge browser on Mac - it worked on old (8 year old) Mac running Catalina, and its working on new MacBookPro 14 with latest software and M1 chip. I think the issues seem to be focussed on late model Macs with Intel chips (that's where I had massive problems).
Thanks to a generous employer I have now changed to a Macbook Pro with M1 Pro Processor which made the trick, (only using 20% av processor when using teams now) however it is terrible that a service like this cant be handled by a i5 Dual Core and in your case an i7 processor.
