The senior vice president of Microsoft Teams announced that Teams would be moving to their own Edge Webview2 Rendering Engine ditching Electron for seeking performance gains. It is marketed that Teams would consume 2x less memory as a result of the transition. It would be called Teams 2.0 and might ship with Windows 11 in late 2022.

  • @AgreeableLandscapeM
    20•3 years ago

    moving to their own Edge Webview2 Rendering Engine

    Sigh, I thought they were going to move to Qt or something. Should have known better.

  • @jokeyrhyme
    19•3 years ago

    Given that Edge is a fork of Chromium, this isn’t likely to be the tectonic “ditching Electron” announcement that people will probably expect, looks like Teams will still be written in TypeScript, etc

    Microsoft does have optimisations and other features in Edge that are not (yet) in Chromium and thus not in Electron, so this is still a good move

  • @the_tech_beast
    15•3 years ago

    But still teams doesn’t work on firefox.

    If the user agent is changed, Teams works perfectly on Firefox

  • @je_vv
    9•2 years ago

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    • Marxism-Fennekinism
      9•3 years ago

      Yes. So basically nothing will change functionally, though presumably their new framework will be proprietary.

  • @loki
    8•3 years ago

    Maybe Teams would consume 2x less memory because they already shove Edge on all Windows users?

    • IngrownMink4OP
      2•3 years ago

      I posted it here because Electron is a open-source software… I mean, I hate Microsoft as much as you do, but the main topic was Electron.

  • @cheer
    3•3 years ago

    And here I was hoping for native VSCode

  • @xarvos
    3•3 years ago

    I hope this does not mean I can no longer run it from Chromium.