{"id":269383,"date":"2023-03-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/?p=269383"},"modified":"2023-03-27T10:48:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T17:48:53","slug":"welcome-to-the-new-era-of-microsoft-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2023\/03\/27\/welcome-to-the-new-era-of-microsoft-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the new era of Microsoft Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Today, we embark on the next chapter of the Microsoft Teams story with the public preview of the new Microsoft Teams app for Windows<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From its inception in 2017, our vision for Teams has always been to bring together all your communication and collaboration tools in one place, from chat and meetings to apps and files. Whether used for work, school, or life, over 280 million people rely on Teams every month to stay productive and connected with colleagues, partners, customers, friends, and family. Teams has also enabled amazing innovation from third-party independent software vendors (ISVs), corporate developers, and system integrators\u2014resulting in over 1,900 apps in the store as well as over 100,000 custom apps that integrate seamlessly with the Teams platform. These applications, when combined with a broad ecosystem of Teams certified devices and rooms, help you stay productive and in the flow of work.<\/p>\n\n\n \n\t\t\tEnable New Teams\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\tLearn more<\/span> <\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n We have been listening to your feedback which has culminated in a reimagining of Teams from the ground up. The new app is built on a foundation of speed, performance, flexibility, and intelligence\u2014delivering up to two times faster performance while using 50 percent less memory so you can save time and collaborate more efficiently. We have also streamlined the user experience so that it is simpler to use and easier to find everything in one place. These enhancements also provide the foundation for game-changing new AI-powered experiences, such as Copilot for Microsoft Teams, announced earlier this month.1<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n While we have already been making a steady stream of improvements in the existing Teams apps, the biggest breakthroughs will only be available with new Teams. Below is a summary of the most significant areas of improvement but you can deep dive into the full list in our Tech Community blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Faster. <\/strong>Our North Star for new Teams is to make it twice as fast while using half the system resources. To achieve this, we have made a ground-up investment to overhaul the platform<\/a> to optimize the data, network, chat, and video architecture for speed and performance. We are by no means done optimizing the performance of new Teams, but we have already seen very promising data even from the public preview build rolling out today. We have worked with the independent benchmarking firm GigaOm<\/a> to quantify some of the performance gains, which reports that both app launch and join meeting are already twice as fast, and memory consumption has decreased by half when testing the new Teams preview compared with classic Teams.2<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\nThe new Microsoft Teams: Faster, simpler, more flexible, and smarter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n