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Yeah, it's a stupid idea, but they are going all in with Teams as a big feature, after the past year and a half of remote-first work/school. I can only hope th

Yeah, it's a stupid idea, but they are going all in with Teams as a big feature, after the past year and a half of remote-first work/school. I can only hope that the efforts to rewrite the Teams app to use WebView2 instead of Electron will have some savings in resource usage, but I'm not holding my breath. I thought the Lync client was bloated when it was doing the same things with a tenth of the resource consumption... I expect that the more onerous hardware requirements that appear right now to obsolete older hardware will be rolled back, or will turn out to not actually be real technical constraints. You can still play most video games on a PC from a decade ago; hardware improvements have almost completely stalled out as far as the average user can perceive them, and it doesn't seem all that likely that that paradigm is going to shift in the near future.

WorldMaker 5y ago
Sources say that the "Windows Integration" for Teams is a separate app entirely written in either C++/XAML or C#/XAML, I don't recall which I read it was. It sounds like Microsoft's current solution to "Teams is bloated on Windows" is to give you a native half-capable Teams client in your Taskbar so that you can use Teams before you launch the real Teams client.
- thrower123 5y ago
  I had heard some odd rumblings that it wasn't actually working with real Office 365 corporate Teams accounts, only the semi-related new consumer Teams accounts that have started rolling out. I hope that this isn't an indication that there is going to be another weird bifurcation of almost but not quite compatible clients that confuse the hell out of users, like we had for years with Skype vs Skype for Business. https://tomtalks.blog/2021/07/preview-microsoft-teams-2-0-on-windows-11-rolls-out/ https://tomtalks.blog/2021/07/preview-microsoft-teams-2-0-on...

WorldMaker 5y ago

Sources say that the "Windows Integration" for Teams is a separate app entirely written in either C++/XAML or C#/XAML, I don't recall which I read it was. It sounds like Microsoft's current solution to "Teams is bloated on Windows" is to give you a native half-capable Teams client in your Taskbar so that you can use Teams before you launch the real Teams client.

thrower123 5y ago
I had heard some odd rumblings that it wasn't actually working with real Office 365 corporate Teams accounts, only the semi-related new consumer Teams accounts that have started rolling out. I hope that this isn't an indication that there is going to be another weird bifurcation of almost but not quite compatible clients that confuse the hell out of users, like we had for years with Skype vs Skype for Business. https://tomtalks.blog/2021/07/preview-microsoft-teams-2-0-on-windows-11-rolls-out/ https://tomtalks.blog/2021/07/preview-microsoft-teams-2-0-on...