Microsoft Teams by many accounts is a resource hog in it's current form. It looks like Microsoft got the message and is revamping the entire experience in the upcoming Windows 11 Operating system. The code base Microsoft rebuilt "Teams 2.0" is called WebView 2 rather than "Electron" and is apparently going to make things a lot smoother and not bog down your machine anymore!
"In a series of tweets commenting on the announcement, Rish Tandon, corporate vice president of engineering for Microsoft Teams, said a change in the software architecture of the app meant that a consumer account on “Teams 2.0” would take up half the memory of the same account on the “Teams 1.0” in use to date. The architecture would also add support for multiple Teams accounts on the same device and making scaling up easier for the client."
"Electron uses Chromium for rendering and Chromium’s behaviour is to detect how much system memory is available and utilizes enough of that memory to optimize the rendering experience. If other apps or services signal that they require system memory, Chromium gives up memory to those processes. This matters a lot less on high-end PC’s with lots of RAM, but as you get to less performance machines with less RAM, for example often the choice in education to hit an aggressive price point, performance can really suffer."
In Windows 11, Microsoft Teams is going to be "deeply" intertwined into the native desktop experience rather than a bolt-on app. Basically, Microsoft is trying to make Teams it's "Skype" replacement meaning Teams won't just be for business use it's going to be for home, personal, etc. For those Mac users out there Microsoft is clearly taking a few pages out of the Mac OSX playbook with WIndows 11 including making Teams more like Apple Messenger and Facetime.
