The next version is expected to be officially released tomorrow, April 26. Microsoft releases new public preview versions of its applications on a weekly basis. Nonetheless, it should bring noticeable improvements to performance on Apple Silicon machines. The application is available for direct download. This version of Teams appears to be a beta, which means it is not necessarily perfectly stable and could come with bugs and performance issues. Once ITS processes your request, we recommend using the MS Teams desktop application for full functionality. The lack of an Apple Silicon version of Teams has led to a number of complaints from Teams users over the last year and a half. Up until this week, Microsoft Teams for macOS would run as an Intel application on Apple Silicon Macs, using Apple’s Rosetta 2 translation technology.
When you download and install the app, you can see that Teams is now a “Universal” app. Microsoft has not publicly announced this version of Teams for macOS, but the file was discovered on the company’s website this week. While the Apple Silicon version of Microsoft Teams is not publicly available to Teams users yet, you can download it via the company’s website. Over 18 months after the release of the first Mac powered by the M1 chip, Microsoft has released a version of Microsoft Teams that is optimized for Apple Silicon.