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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
arjunahmtp im in the unfortunate position of needing to use both teams and slack for work and spend hours in screen-shares in both products every day. can't say im a massive teams fan but it definitely has its advantages over slack. one thing they both have in common though, is this CPU spike issue (2018 MBP). ive had the same problem with both these products on and off for the past few years and for me, its mostly been triggered by me sharing my screen and doesn't always resolve when i stop sharing. but then ive also had this issue with whatsapp and vscode so for me the cpu spike is a common flaw in electron-based apps. you could argue its the implementation but if its a mistake made so commonly and for so long, at some point my frustrations start shifting to electron rather than poor use of it. i dont have a decent, general, lightweight replacement for electron so its hard to criticise too heavily but at some point someone will. and if electron is still fat and thirsty then replace it is what everyone will do. until that day, if just one of these apps could stick to its fair share of system resources, that would be great. its not a big ask
