Microsoft Teams is getting a complete makeover with a new design and significant performance improvements.

Microsoft Teams, one of the world’s leading communication platforms, has been completely renovated. Mostly when it comes to its performance. It’s no secret that the application not only consumed a significant amount of resources on the computer, but also had certain shortcomings that affected its operation.

Redmond knows very well that if they really intend to become a benchmark in such a competitive sector, they must address these issues as soon as possible. In fact, they admit that most of the complaints about the service are due to its slowness and excessive consumption of resources, especially RAM and battery.

“We heard that it is very slow, eats up the battery and consumes a lot of memory. We read all these comments.”

For this reason, Redmond decided to make significant changes. They developed a computer application from scratch, putting performance above everything else.

What benefits can you see in this updated version of Microsoft Teams? In a statement shared with edge, the company says the app is faster. In addition, it takes half the resources than before.

“The new Teams is faster, simpler and more flexible than ever. We’ve made great strides in performance and usability. The new Teams is 2x faster and uses 50% fewer resources.”

After update Microsoft Teams will be 3 times faster when you open an app or join a conversation. On the issue of resources, it will consume half the RAM and take up to 70% less storage spaceor. This, no doubt, will be very well received by those people whose computers are not bad in terms of technical characteristics.

How were these huge leaps in productivity achieved? Microsoft Teams got rid of ElectronA framework which, although it includes a large number of tools for creating desktop applications with JavaScript, is excessively resource-intensive. People from Redmond have developed a new application with webview2, which is part of Microsoft Edge. Actually, when you use a communication service, you will share some resources with the browser.

In terms of user interface, the new Microsoft Teams abandoned AngularJS to adopt Reactwhich also had a positive effect on the overall functioning of the application.

And if we talk about the interface, then in this sense there are new opportunities. Microsoft has been making efforts over the past few months to expand on the visual style introduced in Windows 11. Therefore, many elements of the operating system are now present in Microsoft Teams.

On the other hand now it will be possible to view all your accounts and notifications from the new dropdown menu. Yes, no more logging out and logging in multiple times.

Finally, Microsoft Teams will join the AI ​​fever. A few days ago, they detailed how the service will join forces with GPT-4, the next generation of the OpenAI language model. Specifically, Second pilot will be responsible for providing you with summaries and transcripts of meetings.

At this time, the Microsoft Teams update is only available in beta through the Public Preview program. The company also promises to release an improved version of the variant for macOS.