[thereddaikon]

Microsoft themselves don't understand that. Teams installs itself to appdata in its entirety. One full install of teams for each user profile. Keeping it updated across one machine is impossible. How can we expect anyone else to do it right when Microsoft allows its own employees to abuse it?

[FuriouslyAdrift]

The original Teams was an Electron app and was stuck with Google's methods.

The new Teams is based on WebView2 and runs from C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\

[JackeJR]

Teams was kept in appdata like Chrome so that these programs can update themselves without admin privileges and I suppose that is how they keep users on a recent version.

[thereddaikon]

Except it completely backfires when you have a workstation with multiple users who infrequently use it. Existing patching solutions, like microsoft's own system center have a hard time coping with applications that live in app data. So you end up with 8 instances of teams on a system. 6 of which are months out of date.

[Khaine]

I just hope they kill teams with fire. It is hot garbage.