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?
Firstly Thanks to @sam the PM for replying to this thread frequently
Im here to add weight to this problem. as someone who works in the industry I'm still completely amazed after two years MS Teams is running so terribly, turning my intel mac into a furness.
Im also someone who bought a high end MBP 16 in order to be able to facilitate and run meetings and workshops effectively without performance problems. I do this across two large monitors and its essential I have these + Teams & my other tools for this - mural or Miro in Chrome. + other standard stuff so I can manage the events and workshops effectively. This is really important to my work because leaders in big orgs who are involved in these things are not going to put up with shoddy facilitation, they'll get another supplier. Mural and Miro are chunky apps, however No other VC software i use frequently causes the pain teams causes.
Today was a 30 min demo. a V important meeting at the end of a piece of work. Execs, 150+ people, etc. MS Teams + Mural in Chrome, Gslides, notepad, Slack and some idle tabs. I disconnected a monitor just incase. Laptop open for maximum airflow. 20 mins in and my machine has turned to sludge and fans are wild. I cannot unmute, respond, read / type in comments for the session or access my other apps without 3-4 seconds of delay.
yes its summer, its 25 Degrees, but Im really tired of these performance issues. I spent a small fortune on this machine, yet teams makes it feel like its underpowered and old.
A couple months back I monitored data bandwidth use for meetings with 5 participants and similar length. across MST and zoom. screenshots attached.
I cant get my head around the difference or why so much data is being shifted / processed. Is this the problem?
So Im in a position where an app (Teams) is either going to cost me thousands, or possibly lose me work.
However I need to keep reminding myself that MS Teams in Chrome is more efficient and not use the app, and sacrifice some of the features Ill miss, until this is resolved, (which I hope is soon as I have no choice but to use my client's enterprise services) or spend lots more money on an Mx computer.
