Microsoft Teams could soon benefit from one of its most important updates since its inception. According to The Verge, Microsoft is preparing a brand new version of its collaborative application that will be more efficient and consume less memory. The development of this major overhaul of Teams is already so advanced that the new version of the application could be rolled out to users next month.
A new architecture for a new life
If you use Teams on your computer, you know that the Microsoft application is anything but neutral when it comes to exploiting the available resources. Teams is such a heavy load on your computer’s memory that it’s not uncommon for the application to crash, especially when you’re running other more or less intensive tasks at the same time. But things could change quickly. The Verge reports that Microsoft has been working on a new Teams client for some time, dubbed Teams 2.0 or Teams 2.1 internally. To create this new version, Microsoft would have started from scratch. The new teams could use up to 50% less memory than the current application. In addition, the app would be less greedy for processor resources and therefore would limit its impact on the autonomy of wearable devices.
To create this new version of Teams, Microsoft abandoned the Electron framework and the Edge WebView 2 technology used by the current application. The American company has also switched to the React Javascript library to improve the user interface of its collaborative tool. This new architecture should make it easier for Microsoft to make future improvements to Teams. For example, the introduction of these new technologies should allow the tool to support multiple accounts at the same time.
The main aim of this new version of Teams is to correct the main negative points of the current tool, which looks more like a gas plant. With the new Teams, Microsoft could all agree, provided the tool is faster and smoother as promised, especially when giving an online presentation or replying to your messages. While no official availability date is known at this time, Microsoft could start rolling out previews of the new Teams to users at the end of March. If Microsoft follows the same pattern it normally uses, users can, if they wish, activate the new version of Teams on their computer, with the ability to revert to the old version if needed.