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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
I suspect Teams are throttling my internal GPU while in video call to the point that picture starts flickering - no throttling while in any other app.
We are cursed with the Office365 in our organisation, they became monsters to our Macbook pros, esp the Teams application, such a pain to everyone, when someone in the meeting shares the screen, the display gets flickering and then machines go to freeze state, like a mosquito sucking blood, this is sucking so much power, we wonder this is not the situation with 5 times less priced windows machine with bare minimum Intel I5 processors and 8 GB ram, Microsoft should be embarrassed about this, and it seems this is either being done deliberately or not paying attention to the applications for Apple products. It is such a pity, My machine is a 2019 16Inch Macbook pro with a 4GB graphics card, and even that couldn’t hold this mammoth well, why teams have become such a pain, why are you people so numb on this? I really want to bash the heck out, and we are returning our MacBooks in exchange for windows with a shameful scenario like this; you should feel embarrassed about this.
Sometimes the CPU usage percentage goes beyond 100% too - Process "Microsoft Teams Help(Render)", when you click on the 'Teams' icon for the channels.
Microsoft seems to be unaffected of this they does not even care about apple products. i have been writing this post on twitter to, if you setup a meeting, I will show the same scenario live, I got another MacBook replaced, Microsoft successfully killed a machine with their Teams application.
SunilNagavelli agree. Works well on a three year old entry spec MS Surface but not in a comparable Mac. Ok on my brand new M1 MacBook. What’s worse is Teams has crap spec. The screen cuts the participants images in half, no private chat and no second screen. So when someone shares a screen the grid of participants vanishes. Zoom is way better.
At an enterprise level if you have a large meeting the company’s MS enterprise servers can’t handle it and participants are often asked to turn off there screens - what a joke. I have a quarterly meeting with one large enterprise where only the chair has their screen on.
Time start telling IT departments to stick it and use Zoom. It is simply a way better product.
