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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
It seems like MS released a new beta version of the teams client: https://9to5mac.com/2022/04/25/microsoft-teams-apple-silicon-mac/
I installed it and so far it is looking very promising. Way less lag and CPU usage.
- Be careful as the above is a leaked version from an internal build. Just make sure you are getting it from a Microsoft server (which is out there but I'm not linking to).
- Avoid it, it’s significantly broken.
That's correct - it's been a long time and they still weren't able to solve this. Microsoft team, could you please update us where we stand?
- Sam Cosby
Microsoft
Hi everyone. Recently, some sites have published articles about a Microsoft Teams Beta release of a Universal Binary application that runs natively on both M1 and Intel based processors. The information in these articles is inaccurate, and articles have no backing from Microsoft. In the articles, there are links to builds on our CDN that are for internal use only. We are working on delivering a Universal Binary offering of Teams and the CDN link in these articles does contain a downloadable version. However, we discourage users from trying this version(and all other versions that do not come from official Microsoft distribution channels), as it is still in the early phases of testing, fixing, and validation.
We understand that our users are eager for a native M1 build, and we are excited to make it a reality in the near future, but we ask that users please not use these unvalidated, unsupported versions.
Thanks,
Sam
Microsoft Teams Engineering, Product Manager- Hi Sam,
thank you for this explanation. Yesterday the beta was working fine on my machine but it is a way different story today. It is totally unresponsive and I will switch back to the not working stable version.
NilsSovanta My understanding is that this will make a big difference to M1 based Macs, finally moving to a universal app rather than working through Rosetta. It's still based on Electron, that will change in the future, but this should give relief to the performance on M1 Mac.
StevenC365 I wouldn't mark this as a solution as its only a beta. i've got it installed at its made little to no difference.
mikefishtank It's the nearest thing for now, I'll update it when there is a GA version. Is your Mac an M1 processor ? I would suggest that it's not properly installed if you see no difference.
