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I suggest you try the web app version, it’s faster and more stable.

In fact, I believe Microsoft will replace the desktop client with a web app shell.

You can try it out today;

1. Install the Microsoft Edge Web browser on Mac or Windows 2. Log into https://teams.microsoft.com 3. Click … > Apps > Install this site as an app 4. Enjoy!

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Desktop version is electron

that is changing "soon" (with an ever-changing definition of "soon")

What is the “new” version’s tech stack? I always thought that with the Office and Windows team slowly adopting React Native for some features that they would redo Teams with that. Realistically they could start out with a React Native shell and just use web views for most functionality at first to replace Electron (and eventually, hopefully, rewrite some core functionality in RN and/or actually native bits).

.net native application per platform, with WebView2 views but logic moved to some .net language, probably C#.

I believe all application logic is moving to .net with the visible elements being HTML & CSS, but do not remember where I read it, so take it with a grain of salt.

if there was mention of react native, I do not remember it, but I gloss right over mentions of most web frameworks, so it may play a role.

It's surprising that nobody has mentioned that MS is calling this Teams 2.0. They're rewriting to React with WebView2. I don't believe any of the functionality will be in the C#, but we'll see.

It's probably worth me mentioning that I'm building a Teams client using Typescript and Tauri! https://opercom.co.uk

you can check here now if you want to.

https://github.com/ItzLevvie/MicrosoftTeams-msinternal/tree/...

For Chrome:

  chrome.exe --app=https://teams.microsoft.com

you can also add these two for an isolated copy of each Teams instance:

  --profile-directory=
  --user-data-dir=

Thanks so much, I will try this! Much appreciated!

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