Microsoft says it is improving the Teams desktop client performance via an upgraded framework introduced this month.
According to the company, the upgrade brings better performance to Windows and Mac desktop users when they are interacting with the Teams desktop app. Microsoft says the upgrades include rendering the HTML tree faster, running JavaScript and serializing arrays more efficiently.
“We went through a comprehensive analysis of our key user scenarios from workloads to our internal audiences as well as A/B experimentation,” the company says in a blog. “The upgraded framework showed improvements across the board, especially for P95 metric, which means that 95 percent of the time, the experience is better than metric. Tracking performance metrics at the 95th percentile signals if improvements apply to most users, including those with low-end devices and poor network conditions.”
According to Microsoft, users now have better fluidity when switching between different chats, channels and activity feeds. Since summer 2020, switching between chat threats has become 32% faster, and switching between channels is now 39% faster, the company claims.
In addition, the framework upgrade improved meeting experiences, including joining and interacting. The Redmond, Wash. IT giant says joining a meeting is now 21% faster, and the latency of raising a hand in the meeting has improved by 16%.
One of the knocks on Teams has been its speed and performance, but this demonstrates that Microsoft is working on improving the user experience.
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