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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...
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 completely agree. Performance is awful. Performance in a stand-alone browser is, inexplicably, better than in the electron skin. I still think it's a crime that Safari and Firefox are second-class citizens. On my rMBP (2018) sometimes kernel task comes in to throttle performance as the whole thing melts. Talking to four people at once is a struggle. Zoom manages with 500 without the fan coming on.
I've noticed that several thousand error messages appear (like the following) at times, randomly. I contacted M$'s first line support and got told something like "our developers work very hard to try to remove bugs and please provide feedback through Teams itself". I've given it basically 1 star at every opportunity available. It's overcomplicated and fundamentally fails at its main task: videoconferencing.
I've seen literally more than 1000 error messages in the developer console, many of them on line 1e6+ of some poor bit of Javascript. I'm not surprised my computer is melting. Can't you just rewrite the whole thing in QT?