Microsoft Windows 11/10 Teams 2.0 runs significantly faster

According to the latest report, after the release of Windows 11 in 2021, Microsoft is actively starting to develop a redesigned and “built from scratch” version of Microsoft Teams for next-generation devices. The new Teams experience, apparently dubbed “Microsoft Teams 2.0,” is available to users with personal accounts on Windows 11 devices.

The biggest difference between the old Teams client and the new Teams is that Teams 2.0 is not based on Electron, Microsoft uses embedded web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript on top of Teams 2.0’s Chromium engine. At the same time, Microsoft has also made significant improvements to Teams’ business/desktop applications.

Thanks to several improvements released over the past few months, the Microsoft Teams client for Windows 11 and Windows 10 is now significantly faster on desktop platforms.

Microsoft says it wants to take into account users on low-end devices and low-bandwidth networks, which is why the report only focuses on 95 percent of all desktop users worldwide. This means that 95% of the time, the experience will be better than highlighted in the report.

Teams are faster on Windows

After a recent update, Microsoft Teams now loads pages faster than before. Latency was reduced by 11.4% when users scrolled through the chat list. On the other hand, scrolling in the channel list is now 12.1% faster.

The compose message box has been updated to load 63% faster, so users can type messages right away.

Below is a list of other performance improvements:

  • The time to switch between channels and open new chat windows has been greatly reduced. 25% faster.
  • Switching between threads in the active feed was 17.4% faster.
  • Switching between chat threads is 3.1% faster.

Microsoft officially confirmed that more improvements are in the works, but they cannot share a timeline at this time.

“We will make more improvements for the commercial release, including larger architectural improvements, although a timeline cannot be shared at this time,” Microsoft said.

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