The company has streamlined its platform, making it easier for meetings to navigate and cutting down on wait times for content to load.
With Microsoft focusing exclusively on interactive response times and improving overall performance for Team users, the company announced several upgrades to Teams that will streamline the experience of using the platform. The company wrote a blog titled “Performance improvements for Microsoft Teams lead to faster response times“Released on June 2, 2022, detailing the efficiency gains now available when compared to Team rates from August 2021.
Mark Longton, chief program officer at Microsoft, writes: “Investments have included switching from Angular framework to React, upgrading Electron (a framework for building desktop applications), reducing render and make incremental improvements to the code. “Our desktop, framework, and performance teams have made some fundamental improvements, and our messaging and calling/meeting teams have teamed up to optimize the code for the user experience. targeted user experience that we determine is important to the overall experience.”
Reduce latency and load times
One area of focus for Microsoft with these updates is reducing wait times when using the Teams program. So now when platform users move their mouse over the chat list, latency has been reduced by 11.4% and scrolling through channel list has improved by 12.1%. In addition, users who click on the compose message box will see a boost, as the screen now loads 63% faster, allowing users to immediately start composing messages without waiting.
Now, page load times are also running more efficiently, with Microsoft touting the following upgrades:
- Time to switch to channels and open chat windows were both improved by 25%
- Subject conversions in the activity feed improved by 17.4%
- Conversion between chat threads has improved by 3.1%
Although this may not seem important at first glance, for those in work remotely settings, the time it takes for items in the program to load increases significantly over time.
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More mobility and less delay in meetings
For users using Teams for multiple meetings per day or week, there will be noticeable improvements in reduced latency and faster button response times in the meeting screen. Response time for people clicking the mute and unmute buttons is improved by 16%, and accessing the ‘Join Before Meeting’ screen is now 9% faster.
Furthermore, on the list of performance upgrades is opening the call or meeting window, which increases response speed by 4.5%. The ability to switch to the chat screen improved 13%, to the activity feed improved 18.7% and to the channel improved 20%.
“To gauge our progress, we recently looked at anonymized data from the 95th percentile of all desktop users in the world (meaning 95% of the time good experience). than this figure),” Longton wrote. “We tend to focus on the 95th percentile because it includes users on low-end devices, users on low-bandwidth networks, and a combination of other edge cases that can impact user experience .”
