Microsoft’s new Teams 2.0/2.1 architecture already powers the built-in Teams consumer experience on Windows 11. However, users have yet to see any noticeable changes on their Windows and Mac devices. Over the past few years, the company has released several updates to reduce the memory and CPU usage of the app. Microsoft acknowledged that users have been complaining about the high resource usage of the Teams desktop client since its launch in 2017. Image credits: Twitter ( Florian B) Microsoft Teams 2.0 to reduce CPU/memory usage and run faster on older hardware It will be a journey but with Windows 11 we have taken key first steps.” “This architecture will help us add support for multiple accounts, work life scenarios, release predictability, and scale up for the client. We are now 100% on reactjs,” said Rish Tandon. Teams will continue to remain a hybrid app but now it will be powered by Microsoft Edge. We are moving away from Electron to Edge Webview2. “With this change, we are taking a major step in Microsoft Teams architecture.
It will allow users to sign into the app with multiple work accounts. This change should bring UI enhancements and several new features such as support for multiple accounts. Rish Tandon, Former Corporate VP for Microsoft Teams, detailed on Twitter that the app is moving away from Angular to use the Javascript-based library React. It should also help to improve battery life and make the app less taxing on the CPU (especially on older hardware). The company claimed that the new Microsoft Teams client should consume 50 percent less memory when compared to the existing desktop application.
Microsoft first unveiled its plans to update the architecture of its Microsoft Teams platform back in June 2021. The company has reportedly started testing the new Teams (2.0 or 2.1) app internally, and it should be available in preview in March (via The Verge). Microsoft is getting ready to launch its revamped Microsoft Teams desktop app that will bring significant performance improvements by ditching the Electron framework in favor of Edge Webview 2.
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