New Microsoft Teams coming soon

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Microsoft appears to be working on a new Microsoft Teams desktop app, as discovered by reliable leaker Walking Cat.

Teams Alpha (you'll need proper account to use though, good luck) https://t.co/eVfEfFKKB0
— WalkingCat (@_h0x0d_) February 26, 2021

The app is not available for testing yet, but appears to be built on web technologies, much like the new rumoured desktop Outlook app.

interestingly, this version of Teams app is simply a wrapper of Web app, much like the New Outlook app, is this what the future of Microsoft apps holds?? https://t.co/m3p6Qi0qnT
— WalkingCat (@_h0x0d_) February 26, 2021

The app has the code name Maglev and, as the screenshot shows, is currently disabled.
Microsoft appears to be switching away from Electron but continues to concentrate on portable applications which can run as easily on Windows as the Web or the Mac.
Hopefully, the move to a more agile platform will also allow the company to iterate faster on ease of use, Team’s biggest issue at present.

Microsoft is working on a new Microsoft Teams desktop app, Microsoft Teams Alpha

Microsoft appears to be working on a new Microsoft Teams desktop app, as discovered by reliable leaker Walking Cat. Teams Alpha (you'll need proper account to use though, good luck) https://t.co/eVfEfFKKB0 — WalkingCat (@_h0x0d_) February 26, 2021 The app is not available for testing yet, but...

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[blackice]

Thank goodness. We use Teams in my organization and it is an unbelievable mess after even a few meetings or groups are created.

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Microsoft Teams 2.0 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2:

Credit to Brad Sams for first reporting on this, Alongside the Windows 11 announcement today, Rish Tandon, the CVP Engineering for Microsoft Teams, posted on Twitter about changes coming to Microsoft Teams architecture. It gave a lot of useful insight into what is coming.

• Microsoft Teams is moving away from Electron to Edge Webview2
• Angular has gone. Teams is now 100% on reactjs
• Teams is also leveraging apollo graphql
• “Teams 2.0”, a name Rish coins in his tweet, but I suspect not an actual product name/version, launches with Windows 11 and consumer accounts then commercial will move to the same architecture
• Teams/Microsoft will continue to contribute back to apollo, graphql, reactjs, chromium projects

So what does this all mean?

If you are not interested in the detail, the punchline is Teams is moving to a more performant and more Microsoft controlled technology stack, meaning a better and more performance client experience. If you want the detail read on….

Microsoft Teams 2.0 will use half the memory, dropping Electron...

Credit to Brad Sams for first reporting on this, Alongside the Windows 11 announcement today, Rish Tandon, the CVP Engineering for Microsoft Teams, posted on Twitter about changes coming to Microsoft Teams architecture. It gave a lot of useful insight into what is coming. Microsoft Teams is...

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