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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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rafaelcelfocus
Copper Contributor
Jul 14, 2022

shilocase I know for a fact that the Macbook with Core i9 does not have enough cooling and it can be slower than the i7 version. That model is just a waste of money. I had issues with pretty much anything that consumed more RAM than expected (Docker, Chrome, Teams...).

 

That being said, Teams is just garbage. It looks like they got the worse things from Skype and tried to compete with Zoom in a tight schedule. There is just nothing good about Teams. The worse thing is that Microsoft offers these apps in a competitive price for the enterprise world and most companies fall for it and we eventually get stuck using it.

 

I've had issues with Teams on the 3 operating systems (Linux, Mac and Windows) with Mac and Linux being the worst. I don't understand how a company that created the Office Suite which is beautiful and works can create something like this.

 

- The UI/UX experience is a joke. It looks like no designers were involved during the conception.

- The UI flickers a lot when clicking to switch chats & groups and sending messages.

- Video and audio sometimes does not work

- Screen sharing is always a pain

- The app freezes sometimes and have to be restarted

 

The app just feels bulky, heavy, full of bugs and bad UI decisions.

I wish it was more like Slack and the meetings were more like Hangouts.

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