A tragic consultation that 'Microsoft Teams kills my Mac every day'

The tech community at Microsoft has a very radical title, 'Teams is KILLING my Mac Every Day.'

Teams is KILLING my Mac Every Day --Microsoft Tech Community

Written by Mac user shilocase on September 27, 2021. Community manager John Steckroth has fixed the title because it was a bit more radical at first, or it violated the guidelines, but the phrase 'KILLING' is still used.

The machine used by shilocase is a 16-inch MacBook Pro with Intel Core i9 and 16GB of memory. In terms of specifications, there should be no shortage in using Microsoft Teams, but there are times when the delay is severe and screen sharing is successful or not, and the screen is displayed but no sound is heard, or conversely. It is said that the screen is not displayed and only the sound is heard, and there are a series of problems such as 'I can not stand it'.

Considering a possible OS problem, shilocase erased the entire drive and re-installed the OS cleanly, but the situation did not improve, and when I attended a team meeting with 100 people, I shared the screen. When I try, the screen flickers, and not only Teams but also the entire system such as mail, calendar, finder, preview, etc. is delayed by 5 to 10 seconds. It was cured when I restarted, but when I started Teams to join the meeting again, it seems that it became the original mokuami.

Mr. shilocase has already been suffering from this problem for over a year, 'Teams is a virus and I am confident that developers should be dismissed for ignoring this problem.' It is revealed.

In response to the report, Microsoft's Sam Cosby commented, 'We guarantee that we are doing important work to improve the problem.'

With shilocase speaking out, h0yt3r, Xenothan, brunosimon and others, who are also Mac users, reported that the client freezes during meetings, especially when sharing screens.

Jonfahey89, who has been using Teams on a 21.5-inch iMac with a 1.4GHz dual-core i5 since around 2014, said after checking the file system usage, 'Teams requested an unpleasant level of I / O for the file system. And the internal paths are saturated due to excessive reads and writes. ' 'We have succeeded in incorporating a bomb that makes macOS users angry into the program,' he said.

Marco Mattes, a front-end developer, also commented that while using Teams, node tools such as Jest and Eslint take 10 minutes to run instead of 60 seconds, so you can't work during Teams.

After all, the problem that occurred under Mr. shilocase is thought to have been commented by Mr. Cosby, and it is said that it was improved by the update at the end of September 2021.

However, it seems that the problem has started to occur again since October 2021 when macOS Monterey was released to the public, and Mac users other than shilocase continue to report the problem in the thread.