Performance improvements on PCs and laptops, among the priorities of Microsoft Teams

20 Feb. (Portaltic/EP) –

Microsoft Teams it hopes to launch a rebuilt version of the platform from scratch next month to improve its performance and the use of system resources on computers, as The Verge recently announced.

Sources close to the company affirm that the technology company is testing a new known service internally as Teams 2.0 or 2.1 and that it promises to use 50 percent less memory, as well as take up less CPU space and improve battery life in laptops.

This new version of the Microsoft application focused on communication and video calls will have its corresponding preview version, which will be available to Teams users at the end of March this year.

From The Verge remember that the technology took the first steps of what will be its updated version of Microsoft Teams in the integrated experience of the platform for windows 11 users, presented in June 2021.

This version of the operating system developed by Microsoft integrates the application in the Taskbar, which allows users to connect “instantly through text, rich chat, voice or video” through Windows, iOS and Android.

With this novelty, the messaging application stopped relying on the Electron engine –which limited its performance on low-spec computers– in favor of WebView2, based on Chromium. Thanks to this change, the application works more fluidly and consumes fewer resources.

As the former head of Microsoft Teams Engineering, Rish Tandon, anticipated with the launch of Windows 11, the new architecture of their platform would help them “add support for multiple accounts, work life scenarios, launch predictability and scaling for the customer.

Sources close to the company have indicated that it is currently working on a platform rebuilt from scratch to improve the use of resources of the system on computers and laptops and that this first preview of the function will have a return button to return to the current version of the application.

Microsoft, for its part, has not provided further details about the development and implementation of this redesigned version of Teams.