Do you use Microsoft Teams regularly? Well, get ready, there’s “stuff coming”. Microsoft is finalizing the details of a new version of the collaborative platform that would have been rebuilt from scratch in order to substantially improve its performance on PCs and laptops.
According to The Verge, this new version of Microsoft Teams is being tested internally at the company, and users will be able to try it out in a preview to be released in March.
The new version of Microsoft Teams, which is internally called “Microsoft Teams 2.0/2.1” would use far fewer resources. According to data collected by The Verge, the program would use 50% less memory, make fewer demands on the CPU and improve battery life on laptops.
This new version would move Teams to Microsoft’s Edge Webview 2 technology, moving it away from Electron in the process. In addition, the application will make use of React, a JavaScript library that will deliver new UI enhancements for Teams in the coming months
Rish Tandon, the former head of engineering for Microsoft Teams, stated in a Twitter thread detailing initial Microsoft Teams enhancements that Microsoft’s new architecture would be an essential building block for future Teams enhancements: “This architecture will help us add support for multiple accounts, work-life scenarios, release predictability and scalability for the customer. It will be a journey, but with Windows 11 we’ve taken the first key steps,” Tandon said.
This new version of Microsoft Teams should greatly improve load times, making the program open faster or have a more immediate response when answering messages or being in a video call meeting.
In this way, Microsoft continues to enhance Teams, a program that became very popular in the pandemic times and that recently received a number of new features. In addition, a few months ago, the company added the function to report phishing attacks on the platform.
