M1 optimized teams

Teams currently uses quite a bit of power in comparison with other apps (Slack). It would be great to be able to use Teams for longer without needing to live near a power cable.

Here's what I did. Kind of a hack, but so far it is working out nicely.

Edge is also compiled for M1, so I opened Teams in Edge and made it an "app". Voila, M1 optimized teams in its own window.

Here's what I did. Kind of a hack, but so far it is working out nicely.

Edge is also compiled for M1, so I opened Teams in Edge and made it an "app". Voila, M1 optimized teams in its own window.

That will actually not help as it is basically running in a separate edge webpage without an address bar, it's same as running teams on a browser. That would probably do for people who don't need all features of teams, but for those who do I guess we still have to go with the x86 version of MS Teams.

What features are you talking about that don't exist in the browser but do on the client?

Check out this article https://www.ibpmcorporation.com/post/microsoft-teams-browser-versus-desktop-app

Microsoft only has to update Electron to support Apple Silicon like the M1 which is fairly easy to do. Electron 11 (which supports it) has been released on October 2020 already and we're now already at Electron 14.

Thing is, I don't think they will. They are moving away from electron and going for Edge Webview2. Problem is, the closest we have to a release date for Mac support is post 2021.

So don't hold your breath: this will take a while. Meanwhile, using a browser isn't a bad solution. Chromium based browsers like the new Edge or Google Chrome are fully supported now (screen sharing having been implemented recently).

Here's what I did. Kind of a hack, but so far it is working out nicely.

Edge is also compiled for M1, so I opened Teams in Edge and made it an "app". Voila, M1 optimized teams in its own window.

Excellent ! The link to do it for newbies is here:

Seriously Microsoft this isn't rocket science.

Just re-build Teams using a new version of Electron, and that's it.

Teams is a huge piece of poo, and your attitude towards the non-Windows users is sickening. How can a multi-trillion-dollar company be able to get away with that kind of stuff?

I agree, just rebuild the app with Electron 14. Is that so hard?

Absolutely agree. This is the worst memory hog i have ever seen. Almost 2GB RAM on a calm day? Get your sh.. together.