Performance has been and continues to be a big focus area for Teams. One main area we have made improvements in is responsiveness for the most frequent user actions of switching between Chat, Channel, and Activity. We are also focused on reducing resource consumption and application load time. More improvements are on the way.

~Alex

The feature is still being worked upon. Many different changes are going into Teams and will provide a slow but steady pace to our performance increases.

I don’t have any new details at the moment but hope to get some additional feedback in the next several weeks.

-Warren

The survey has now been completed.

Thanks to everyone who took time out to complete the survey. Your continued feedback really helps us target the issues.

I’ve moved the status back to working on it. The team is digging through all the great feedback and taking further steps to improve your experience.

Thanks again for your feedback and support!
-Warren

A number changes have gone out and the feature team would like to hear your feedback again about performance.
This is a quick survey that will help target the future updates.

Please take a couple minutes to take this survey. (It should only take about 2 minutes to complete.)
https://microsoft.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ba8N1sAkFemYGNL

Thank you again for all your feedback and response.
-Warren

I want to assure you that overall performance, speed, cpu, memory, etc. are all being worked upon.

We want to get these improvements to you ASAP – and so are releasing fixes as they are made, which in turn will snowball into a larger improved feel. (As opposed to holding these in earlier rings, and then doing a big bang update.)

Please know that the feature team is hard at work on dozens of items to make these improvements. We’re seeing great gains in performance in earlier rings of deployment, and you will soon see these improvements as they’re released to further rings.

Again, it won’t be a single update that’ll address all the concerns, and it will take time. But gains are steadily and surely coming.

-Warren

This item is actively being worked upon.

There are several dozen separate update pieces being worked upon that will provide an overall performance boost. As these updates get closer to completion I’ll provide a timeline as they prepare to roll out.

There is a lot of good progress, as I get more details I will share them. The survey was a huge help in pin pointing how we can best serve you with these updates.

Thank you!
-Warren

Thank you all for the amazing response to the survey! The response was huge and very, very helpful.

The survey is now closed. We will start digging through all the provided data and continue working to improve Teams.

I will continue to post updates as we progress, so stay tuned.

Thank you!
-Warren

We need your feedback!

Performance of Teams is a concern and we need some additional information to help drive this work to resolution.

Please take a moment to fill out this online survey. It only takes a couple minutes!

https://microsoft.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_71iJe77gqMRmARv

Thank you all for your feedback and support on this issue.
-Warren

We are working to improve the performance and looking at the issue across many of the features and best ways to make a positive impact.
This is getting a lot of focus and though I don’t have any timeline to share, it is getting a lot of traction and investigation.

As timelines and further details are provided I will share that information with you as soon as I am able.

Thanks,
Warren

First off, thank you for all the feedback you have provided.
I have some good news to share! We have made a big improvement in how Teams uses memory. A large impact came from how Teams uses the Giphy picker.
The best news though… is that our memory usage improvements are out now! Heavy users should be seeing a significant (approx 230mb) decrease in memory usage.

Thank you all for your input and please keep it coming. Your feedback helps us build a better product.
-Warren

Hi everyone — just a heads up that I edited the description to include some of the most poignant comments from this thread. If you have any other info you can share about performance and speed, please keep adding them to the thread here. I’ll routing each to the Perf team, since that really helps for emphasizing urgency, demand, and user pain.

THANK YOU for helping us make Teams better!

Sincerely,
Suphatra

Hi everyone, I sent over your feedback to the performance team and they let me know they are actively working on this.

“Our development organization is continually working to improve product performance and has several efforts currently underway around memory usage, action responsiveness and application start time. Updates which improve performance are part of our regular update process. Thank you for your feedback regarding the performance of Microsoft Teams.”

I will check in on them in a few weeks to see if we can get exact numbers/details on what’s been improved, and I’ll let you know.

Meanwhile, have a great weekend and don’t forget to set your clocks forward by an hour for Daylight Savings!

Sincerely,
Suphatra

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