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by brundolf 1174 days ago
That's part of it, but also, they just published a whole marketing video to advertise a performance improvement
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Sorry, I imagine you posted this before my edit. I don't think this marketing video contradicts my point at all. For Microsoft to commit a large amount of dev time to rewriting Teams and improving its performance, there must have been an actual business reason. That's not something you do because some nerds on HN think your app is too slow.

Presumably, Teams was so unbelievably slow that it crossed over to being an actual problem for customers and not just a mild nuisance. So Microsoft improved performance just enough to stop affecting sales. Is the performance _good_? No, it's still comically slow. But there's simply no incentive to improve the performance further.

I agree that this became an exception because it was so bad that it crossed into mainstream awareness

But:

> there's simply no incentive to improve the performance further

The breakdown here (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/...) indicates this was a monumental rewrite, almost green-field, with the singular goal of fixing performance. I don't think they slumped on effort this time