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shilocase
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Sep 27, 2021
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Teams is KILLING my Mac Every Day

I have a hard time believing I'm the first person to post this after not finding anything in the forum.  I wouldn't doubt if Microsoft is deleting them because they can't figure out how to fix this i...
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  • Sam Cosby's avatar
    Sam Cosby
    Jul 14, 2022

    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

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jblock395
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Jun 08, 2022

Sam Cosby do you have an update at all? I joined a call today on a 2017 Macbook Pro, screen sharing with webcam on. I was using a 1080p external monitor with my Macbook open. 

Fans span up extremely loudly, machine slowed to a halt and then the attendees on the call started talking over me saying "has he frozen?".

I had to turn off webcam and turn off incoming video to be in with a chance of my Macbook not being completely unusable and the attendees being able to see the content and hear me.

Many thanks! 

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Sam Cosby
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Jun 09, 2022
jblock395 - we have some iterative based performance improvements progressing for all Intel based Mac, especially focusing on the Calling/Meetings side. We should have a more refined update in the Message Center/Roadmap in the coming days.
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    jblock395
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 20, 2022

    Hi Sam Cosby Are you able to share the latest?

     

    To give more background on the setup that gives me issues:

    • MacBook Pro 13" 2017 2.3ghz i5
    • 16GB RAM
    • 4k monitor (issues occur on a 1080p monitor too)
    • External webcam (issues occur with internal webcam too)

    Turning my own video off makes things slightly better.

    Making the Teams window size as small as possible takes some of the load off too when looking in Activity Monitor, but this is no good when someone is sharing their screen. 

    Using Teams on web through Edge makes the fans spin up and CPU spike just using chat! 

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    ailsa710
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 15, 2022
    Hi Sam, this is tantalising, I might be able to engage with my colleagues after 2 years! Where do we find news on the release or get the download? Thank you in advance for putting in the effort for intel based Macs ... I'm guessing Apple didn't make your life easy.
    • Aphonicnoise's avatar
      Aphonicnoise
      Brass Contributor
      Jun 18, 2022
      I’ll have to ask again, did I miss something? We are still absolutely sunk trying to get to Microsoft in the company until teams works on macs. It’s functionally broken on anything that isn’t apple silicon and bad on apple silicon. Was there more news?
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        ailsa710
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        Jun 20, 2022
        I was responding to sam's 2nd June post ...
  • Robert Woods's avatar
    Robert Woods
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 09, 2022
    Sam Cosby Same complaint people had this time last year with the same promises from MS.

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