by Microsoft has rolled out an upgrade for its Teams desktop app and claims a speed jump of more than 30% when switching between chat and channel threads.
Upgrades made by Microsoft engineers to the collaborative software’s underlying framework also accelerated meeting join speed by 21% and in-meeting functions, we’re told. As an example, the Windows Sector apparently reduced hand raise latency by 16%.
“The upgrade brings performance benefits to Windows and Mac desktop users when interacting with the application,” Jeff Chen, senior PM manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post. “The upgraded Teams framework provides technical benefits, including faster HTML tree rendering, JavaScript execution, and table serialization more efficiently.”
Speed boosts for functions like switching between different chats, channels, and activity streams or joining a meeting might not seem like a big deal, but Chen wrote that they’re among the most common actions. undertaken by Teams users. It’s now 32% faster to switch between threads than two years ago and 39% faster for channel changes.
The American giant has been pushing to improve the performance of its Teams portfolio, especially following the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, when so many companies around the world sent employees home to work in hopes of slowing the spread. of the virus.
Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other cloud-based collaboration providers have seen massive increases in usage as remote workers have become the norm. Microsoft saw the number of active users grow from 75 million in 2020 to 145 million last year, and that number stands at 270 million in 2022.
When discussing Microsoft’s last financial quarter, CEO Satya Nadella said Teams was “the de facto standard for collaboration and has become essential to how hundreds of millions of people meet, call, chat , collaborate and do business”.
Nadella said Teams users interact with the software an average of 1,500 times per month, and on a typical day, the average business user spends more time in Teams chat than email. Additionally, the number of people using four or more Teams features has increased by more than 20% year over year.
Earlier this week, Microsoft introduced a range of new features in Teams, from Together mode to assign seats to meeting participants and an updated companion mode for Android users to detailed call histories, combining Teams and SharePoint site templates, and updated usage analytics.
Performance speed continues to be a priority. In June, the company talked about improvements to Teams technology, including transitioning from Angular framework to React, upgrading the Electron framework for building desktop apps, reducing re-rendering work, and improvement of the code.
This reduced latencies when scrolling through discussion lists (by 11.4%) and channel lists (12.1%), as well as speeding up message compose box load times by 63 %.
Also this week, Microsoft fixed an issue that prevented Outlook for Microsoft 365 users from being able to schedule Teams meetings. Normally, users can access a Teams Meeting module in the Calendar view through which they can create Teams meetings.
According to Microsoft, the issue occurs when the Teams Meeting add-in is disabled.
“When you try to create a Teams meeting in Outlook Desktop, you find that the option is missing from the ribbon menu,” the company wrote in an updated support notice this week.
The Teams product group said a fix for this issue has been released starting with build 1.5.00.28567.
Microsoft had also offered a workaround that involved selecting File in Outlook, then Options, Add-ins, and Manage. From there, users select “Disabled Items” and Go. If Teams is among the disabled items listed, they can select it, tap Enable, and restart Outlook. ®
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