Microsoft Teams App Gains Native Apple Silicon Support

[Benjamin Nabulsi]

That's the latest continuous deployment build. What's the difference between:
continuous deployment build
exploration build
preview build

I see all 3 of these are Silicon. So if I'm looking for a silicon version that is stable, which one should I get?

No idea, but it's working better than what I had. the status of members were off for a while before upgrading.

 

[AppleFan735]

Companies use Teams because it comes along with Office. No one would ever compare Teams against Slack and decide to use Teams.

This 100%. When it comes to MS products, i find that almost always there’s a far better alternative out there. VSCode might be the only exception.

Using Teams on my 11th gen i7 with 16gb of memory Dell machine and Teams is still a clunky, laggy and stuttery mess. Slack if far better. Microsoft really has no sex in their products..

 

[jonnysods]

Bet it still runs like a pig.

 

[Juraj22]

Just tested it. It is better than old one (Intel). It consumes less memory. However, drawing UI feels still a bit laggy. And Audio driver seems to be still Intel?! There is a progress. But we are not there yet.

 

[ilikewhey]

I get you here. One other dev here and maintain our own Slack chat still because of how flaky Teams has been. We even had another dev (not in my group, on Windows) who had to get a new laptop to use Teams. It didn’t like his laptop and IT / Microsoft could not get it to recognize his mic / video. Slack/Zoom worked fine for years however 🤷🏻‍♂️

yeah my company switched us to team cause its free, cause of that i bought a new mbp 14 with 64gb ram to compensate for team's crappy ram management.

 

[jonobin]

I just use it an Chrome app, at least I minimize the Electron overhead

 

[CheesePuff]

Microsoft for sure would have been able to get the dev Mac Minis a year before release, like everyone else did. Meaning they likely had 3 years or more time.

The DTKs shipped in July 2020, 4 months before public release of Apple silicon Macs, not a year before

 

[sfwalter]

Or, use Webex. It's had native Apple Silicon support for a long time and does not run on top of Electron.

Yeah but Webex is horrible on so many other levels.

 

[sfwalter]

Companies use Teams because it comes along with Office. No one would ever compare Teams against Slack and decide to use Teams.

We used Hipchat back in the day. When it was EOLd we looked at Slack and Teams. For our organization Team's won out over feature set.

 

[Analog Kid]

I've been slowly bringing up a new MacStudio and have been systematically deleting any app not Apple Silicon native. When the "do you want to install Rosetta" dialog comes up I cancel, find the app, and kill it. I exercised the new machine enough now that I can't think of anything critical that I can't find an alternative for and I might get by without ever installing Rosetta.

If you don't care enough about your software to update it for 2 years, I don't care enough about it to use it. It's a good way to clean house of the kruft.

 

[h00ligan]

Can anyone interpret these vague sentences to help us understand when/how we can expect to get this?

"All Mac users will be automatically upgraded with their most recent update to Teams. The generally available (GA) version of the native Teams app on Mac with Apple silicon is being rolled out to customers in increments over the coming months."

We ar e getting a lot of heat so we will announce this is ready but not actually ship it to more than 5 people for another three months.

Helpful?

It’s not even showing in the beta channel at this point.

 

[vanc]

yeah my company switched us to team cause its free, cause of that i bought a new mbp 14 with 64gb ram to compensate for team's crappy ram management.

Memory usage from the latest preview version 1.5.00.20352 looks reasonable. It's a Electron app any way with Chromium as core.

 

[AtheistP3ace]

Hmmm weird. I feel like everyone is saying audio is still Intel but I grabbed continuous build from August 3rd and now my M1 Mac only has two Intel processes. ipcserver (steam) and CarbonComponentScannerXPC (rosetta 2). Everything else including Teams and its audio says its Apple.

 

[davenet]

Just installed the M1 optimized build from a link others have shared. Wow, loads SO MUCH faster than before.

 

[Neil Harrison]

I have to use it as its work tool. I use on Mac mini and m1 mbp…never had an issue so not sure what the going native will bring

If anyone can help

 

[sdf]

Or, use Webex. It's had native Apple Silicon support for a long time and does not run on top of Electron.

Did I miss Webex adding Microsoft Teams support or is this a philosophy thing? 😀

 

[CheesePuff]

Hmmm weird. I feel like everyone is saying audio is still Intel but I grabbed continuous build from August 3rd and now my M1 Mac only has two Intel processes. ipcserver (steam) and CarbonComponentScannerXPC (rosetta 2). Everything else including Teams and its audio says its Apple.

I'm running August 3rd continuous build (1.5.00.21561) and it still has the Intel audio driver

 

[jgbr]

coreaudio.driver still an intel process. 🤦‍♂️

 

[sdf]

I have had to use both Teams and Slack. I prefer Slack.

I have to use both. Also, something called Around. All at the same job.

Also, occasionally Zoom.

 

[southerndoc]

For those wanting it now, you can change to the preview build in Teams (in the about section). It’ll take about 10 mins to download and transition. Perfect for those that don’t want to download a file from a website and reinstall it manually.

Been using it for a few weeks. Works like a champ!

 

[erikkfi]

We used Hipchat back in the day. When it was EOLd we looked at Slack and Teams. For our organization Team's won out over feature set.

That's a choice. You must enjoy the cognitive overhead of trying to remember whether that conversation you were having before is in the Teams tab or the Chat tab because for some reason the app wants to highlight a seam between two fundamentally similar experiences.

 

[dog.cow]

Why can't they just release this App like every other software vendor.

Crazy how complicated Teams is just to get the latest version (x86, x64 or Silicon - macOS or Windows).

Sort it out Microsoft. Now. This is simply not good enough.

 

[AppleTO]

That's a choice. You must enjoy the cognitive overhead of trying to remember whether that conversation you were having before is in the Teams tab or the Chat tab because for some reason the app wants to highlight a seam between two fundamentally similar experiences.

The Chat tab used to have a lot less functionality, presumably because they wanted people to use the Teams function. Over the years it’s gained a lot, probably to keep up with Slack and others. For example, you can now reply to specific messages in the Chat tab. This wasn’t possible until only recently. My company pretty much only uses the Chat tab.

 

[h00ligan]

They've had M1 builds for months.. just visit this and grab whichever "release" you're looking for.

(for some stupid reason, the one @ microsoft.com is still Intel).

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ItzLevvie/MicrosoftTeams-msinternal/master/defconfig

I used this and it was a train wreck. So many problems I had to dump it and go back to slow mode.

 

[CopyChief]

They've had M1 builds for months.. just visit this and grab whichever "release" you're looking for.

(for some stupid reason, the one @ microsoft.com is still Intel).

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ItzLevvie/MicrosoftTeams-msinternal/master/defconfig

Thank you for this! I’m signed up for the beta channel but had not received this yet.

For the first time ever, I’m looking forward to my next Teams call to see if it’s any better.