Microsoft rebuilds Teams applications: based on Webview2 and React development, reducing memory footprint by 50%

CTOnews.com February 21 news, according to foreign technology media The Verge reports, Microsoft is recompiling the Microsoft Teams application, is currently under internal testing, the first preview version is expected to be launched in March.

The report says Microsoft has switched from Electron to its own Webview2 technology from scratch, and has completely rebuilt its Microsoft Teams application using React, which is expected to be released in version 2.0 or 2.1.

The new version greatly improves performance, improves response speed, increases running fluency, and reduces memory footprint by 50% and CPU footprint is also greatly reduced. It is reported that after the new version is launched, it can be run at the same time as the existing Teams version on the Win11 platform.

Are there any CTOnews.com netizens who are using Microsoft Teams? Are you looking forward to the rebuilt Teams? What aspects of Teams do you think Microsoft can continue to improve? You are welcome to leave a message in the comments section.