14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft Teams is one of the products whose adoption skyrocketed in the last months pretty much because the pandemic forced everyone to work remotely and stay in touch with the rest of the colleagues using the power of software.
Teams perfectly responded to this need, and the number of daily active users increased substantially, with Microsoft revealing an increase of no less than 50 percent in the last six months.
Microsoft obviously wants to make Microsoft Teams available everywhere, and one priority for the company is Apple Silicon.
The M1-powered devices are already on the market, and Microsoft already updated its Office productivity suite to play nice with Apple Silicon.
The next stop is Microsoft Teams, and the company confirmed this week that adding support for M1 chips in this product is in the works.
Microsoft Teams with Rosetta
In the meantime, Teams already runs fine with Rosetta emulation, and even if it didn’t, the service is also available in the browser and can easily be used without the need for a desktop client.
“With more than 115M daily active users, Teams has become a critical part of the way many people are navigating the current situation. Teams allows you to meet, chat, call, and collaborate all in a single app. And, when people work in Teams, they all get the full breadth and depth of Microsoft 365. Microsoft Teams is currently available in Rosetta emulation mode on Macs with M1 and the browser. We are working on universal app support for M1 Macs and will share more news as our work progresses,” the company said.
No further specifics have been provided as to when Microsoft Teams is projected to receive this new update to be fully optimized for Apple Silicon-powered devices, but additional info should land in early 2021.