- In a brand new weblog submit, Microsoft supplies knowledge that its Groups app is now considerably quicker in comparison with August 2021.
- Examples embody the compose message field hundreds 63% quicker, switching threads within the exercise feed has improved by 17.4%, mute and unmute audio response throughout a name improved by 16%, and extra.
- Microsoft attributes the development to adjustments within the framework, decreasing re-rendering, and making incremental enhancements to the code.
Individuals who use Microsoft Groups are inclined to have a love/hate relationship with the prevalent work collaboration app (which is now 5 years outdated). Whereas the app permits staff to work collectively remotely, Microsoft’s insistence on counting on cross-platform net instruments like Electron usually means efficiency will not be as perfect as a “pure” native app could be in Home windows. (The identical downside plagues Microsoft’s competitor, Slack, too.)
However the firm seems to be making vital inroads in enhancing the efficiency of its Groups app (particularly the enterprise model of Microsoft Groups built-in into Home windows 11). In a brand new weblog submit (opens in new tab) written by Mark Longton, a proof of how the group of builders behind the app make issues only a bit zippier.
Longton notes that the corporate has been working exhausting over the previous yr to enhance “total interplay responsiveness time” to create a “extra fluid expertise for the consumer.”
In additional technical phrases, the Groups app has transitioned from Angular framework to React, upgraded the construct of Electron, diminished re-rendering, and made “incremental enhancements to the code.”
However what about real-world knowledge as to the outcomes of such adjustments? Fortunately, Longton shared that as nicely, and there’s loads of it:
- When customers scroll over the chat listing, latency has improved by 11.4%.
- Scrolling over the channel listing has been enhanced by 12.1%.
- The compose message field hundreds 63% quicker, enabling customers to kind a message instantly as soon as they change right into a chat or channel.
- The time to modify to a channel and open a chat window was dramatically improved by 25%.
- Switching threads within the exercise feed have improved by 17.4%.
- Switching between chat threads has improved by 3.1%.
- The mute and unmute audio response throughout a name improved by 16%.
- Navigating to the ‘Pre-meeting be part of’ display screen is 9% quicker.
- Opening a calling/assembly window loaded 4.5% quicker.
- As soon as a consumer is in a gathering switching then right into a chat improved by 13%. Switching to the exercise feed improved by 18.7% and switching to a channel improved by 20%.
Whereas a few of these numbers are on the smaller facet, e.g., simply 9% for navigating to the ‘Pre-meeting be part of’ display screen, it’s the general expertise that issues, and it appears clear that Groups is undoubtedly in a greater spot right this moment in comparison with a yr in the past.
Longton closes out, remarking that these adjustments complement the as much as 50% discount in energy consumption in Microsoft Workforce conferences posted in February (opens in new tab).
