14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft Teams was Microsoft’s superstar during the pandemic, as the adoption of the platform simply skyrocketed as the world transitioned to remote working.
With so many people using Microsoft Teams at the same time, it was pretty clear the platform ended up struggling in terms of performance.
Since then, however, the software giant has been working non-stop on polishing the experience with Microsoft Teams, and this week, the company shared the results of its work on this front.
“To gauge our progress, we recently looked at anonymized data from the 95th percentile of all desktop users in the world (meaning that 95 percent of the time the experience is better than this metric). We tend to focus on the 95th percentile because it includes users on low end devices, users on low bandwidth networks, and incorporate other edge cases that can impact the user experience,” Microsoft said in a recent announcement.
Impressive performance improvements
Microsoft’s figures are impressive, to say the least.
The latency that you experience when scrolling over the chat least has been improved by no less than 11.4 percent, while scrolling over the channel list has improved by 12.1 percent. The compose message box now loads no more, no less than 63 percent faster.
Here are the other performance improvements announced by Microsoft:
- The time to switch to a channel and to open a chat window-both were dramatically improved by 25%
- Switching threads in the activity feed has improved by 17.4%
- Switching between chat threads has improved by 3.1%
- The mute and unmute audio response during a call improved by 16%.
- Navigating to the ‘Pre-meeting join’ screen is 9% faster.
- Opening a calling/meeting window loaded 4.5% faster.
Microsoft promises to continue focusing on the performance of Microsoft Teams, and without a doubt, this is good news especially given the app still feels very slow at certain times, especially on non-Windows platforms.