A Performance Boost in the Microsoft Teams Desktop App

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Multiple reports have confirmed that Microsoft has equipped more transformations to its Team desktop client. The company also claimed that it has provided modifications in latency for major opportunities. Microsoft’s Jeff Chen explained this in a new blog post, which the tech giant presented this month. He said the latest latency developments are largely approved for upgrading of the framework.

Moreover, it would enable users of the Teams app on Windows and Mac to get the upgrade. Chen pointed out that the upgraded Teams framework offers extraordinary technical privileges. This includes rapidly translating the HTML tree, running JavaScript, and marshaling appearances more effectively. Microsoft said the most conventional action for users is to shift between different channels, activity feeds, and chats.

The company’s June 2022 release showed 20% faster shifting between chat threads and shifting between Channels was 28%. However, the shifting between chats was 32% faster and 39% faster between Channel threads. Since the enhancement of the framework, the join time has a 21% improvement with the sensitivity improvement during meetings.

Teams Have More than 270 Million Users

For instance, fostering hands during a meeting has 16% less delay compared to the previous build. However, these are excellent benefits and essential to how its developer story has become central Teams. Keep in mind that Teams has around 270 million users and Microsoft is offering new AI-related features each month. The tech giant will reportedly launch Teams premium for $10 per month for a single user in February 2023.

Teams will offer multiple enterprise subscriptions to its Premium add-on, adding Office 365 and Microsoft 365. However, the meeting organizer will manage the licensing policy. This option clearly indicates that attendees can use the premium features without Teams Premium and Intelligent recap. It is important that a Teams Premium licensed user can only organize a meeting.

Extraordinary Work to Reduce CPU Utilization

Mark Langton of Microsoft also responded to comments on Chen’s post. He confirmed that the tech giant still needs extraordinary work to decrease CPU utilization. Langton said the company will constantly improve as Chen calls out for the utilization of resources. He affirmed that the architecture of Teams is still utilizing Electron.

Langton didn’t mention a shift away happening in the future from Electron. He said all of these modifications are related to the current app architecture. It grasped Electrons without releasing any new architecture. The company will rapidly share all the information after the release of new developments.

Performance and Resource Utilization

The tech giant is considering performance and resource utilization more seriously because of the significant space of investment in this sector. The desktop client uses the Chromium rendering engine and was developed on Electron behind both Chrome and Edge for rendering. However, Electron is a structure for constructing desktop applications.

Microsoft is still working on Teams 2.0 which will supposedly shift the desktop app off Electron tracking for better presentation. In June, Langton explained the significant backend alterations. It includes shifting from the Angular JavaScript framework to “React” and Electron upgrade instead of shifting. However, he also highlighted Teams’ performance benefits.