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Microsoft says it volition rotation retired incrementally "in the coming months."

Samuel Axon - Aug 4, 2022 7:22 p.m. UTC

Enlarge / Microsoft Teams moving connected a Mac.

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Microsoft has announced plans to rotation retired an Apple Silicon-native mentation of Microsoft Teams, but the merchandise isn't going to hap overnight.

In a blog post connected its website, Microsoft claims the update volition connection "a important boost successful performance" to users of Macs with Apple's M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra, and M2 chips.

Teams has conscionable been moving arsenic an Intel app via Rosetta 2 connected M1 Macs since the opening of the Apple Silicon modulation successful 2020. Direct competitors Zoom and Slack person offered autochthonal Apple Silicon enactment since December 2020 and February 2021, respectively.

This was a hotly requested diagnostic among Microsoft's users. One feedback point connected the taxable submitted by users six months ago has been upvoted much than 3,000 times since.

However, contempt the agelong delay, the Teams rollout for M1 and M2 Macs volition beryllium a dilatory process. Rather than offering a cosmopolitan binary close present alongside the announcement, Microsoft alternatively announced vague plans to automatically rotation retired the update "to customers successful increments implicit the coming months." (Members of Microsoft's Insider programme person had entree to an M1-native mentation of Teams successful beta since April.)

When Apple launched its archetypal M1-equipped Macs successful precocious 2020, we wrote astir however impressed we were with Rosetta 2—in astir cases, galore users wouldn't adjacent cognize they were moving bequest Intel versions of their applications alternatively of Apple Silicon-native versions if they weren't told.

But nonetheless, users tin expect autochthonal bundle to beryllium much performant, and we'd expect thing little from Teams. Several different large bundle packages person been updated to tally natively connected Apple's caller architecture implicit the past mates of years, from Adobe to Unity to Microsoft's ain Office suite and beyond.

But Teams astir apt won't beryllium the past to marque the move, arsenic determination are inactive immoderate stragglers left—even among the large hitters.