I had my first contact with the Apple M1 when one of my course students raised an issue that the build doesn't pass on Apple's new flagship laptop. The iOS version of Microsoft Teams was supposed to get CarPlay support and more at the end of last year, but this has since been delayed several times.It's been almost a year since I've bought the MacBook Pro M1 ( arm64 processor) for my daily Java development as a freelance consultant. In addition to these improvements, Microsoft is also introducing support for a new emoji picker that will support various skin tone, categories, and up to 800 emojis. You can soon right-click on a message and include the original message with your reply, which should help users jump back to older conversations quickly or get more context. The company has announced new features coming next month to the Windows app, but there is no word on whether the promised Mac improvements will land at the same time.Īccording to Microsoft 365 Roadmap, the company will finally allow you to reply to a specific message.

Microsoft also hasn’t replied to queries about whether there will be a native M1 Mac version of the app.

I’m afraid MS credibility on this issue is wearing thin” “This thread and problem have been running for many years now with lots of promises that its being fixed imminently or has been fixed but things carry on the same as before. “Please use the iOS version to make a catalyst macOS build of the app. Bah, Slack did it a month after M1 hit retail. It’s fairly easy to update to Electron with M1 support – I did it personally for a couple of projects.

Electron had two major releases already – 11 from November brought and later cemented M1 support, 12 was released beginning of March. “Improvements with Electron “What?” Tell me you’re joking. Users so far appear unimpressed by Microsoft’s statement. I’ve tried closing the application, rebooting, re-installing, checking for updates, etc, nothing works. When I go and look at the processes running, It always looks like the ‘helper’ is taking up crazy amounts of CPU and it lags out the application to the point of it almost being unusable. I can’t use teams with out it lagging severely. Microsoft is also “aggressively addressing other areas of performance around the Mac client”, but it’s not yet clear when that update will arrive.įorum reports describe the current app as “almost unusable.” Microsoft is aware of and it’s currently working on a new update that will reduce memory/CPU usage. In a new forum post, Microsoft has quietly confirmed it’s also working on a performance update for macOS client, which is based on Electron Microsoft Teams Mac performance has long been a common complaint, but the company is now promising improvements for the Mac app …įor the past few months, Microsoft has been promising that the upcoming Microsoft Teams update would deliver some substantial performance improvements and reduce overall resources usage.

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