Microsoft has introduced plans to roll out an Apple Silicon-native model of Microsoft Teams, however the launch is not going to occur in a single day.

In a weblog submit on its web site, Microsoft claims the replace will supply “a big enhance in efficiency” to customers of Macs with Apple’s M1, M1 Professional, M1 Max, M1 Extremely, and M2 chips.

Teams has simply been working as an Intel app by way of Rosetta 2 on M1 Macs because the starting of the Apple Silicon transition in 2020. Direct rivals Zoom and Slack have provided native Apple Silicon assist since December 2020 and February 2021, respectively.

This was a hotly requested function amongst Microsoft’s customers. One suggestions merchandise on the subject submitted by customers six months in the past has been upvoted greater than 3,000 instances since.

Nevertheless, regardless of the lengthy delay, the Teams rollout for M1 and M2 Macs shall be a sluggish course of. Reasonably than providing a common binary proper now alongside the announcement, Microsoft as a substitute introduced obscure plans to routinely roll out the replace “to prospects in increments over the approaching months.” (Members of Microsoft’s Insider program have had entry to an M1-native model of Teams in beta since April.)

When Apple launched its first M1-equipped Macs in late 2020, we wrote about how impressed we had been with Rosetta 2—typically, many customers would not even know they had been working legacy Intel variations of their purposes as a substitute of Apple Silicon-native variations in the event that they weren’t advised.

However nonetheless, customers can count on native software program to be extra performant, and we might count on nothing much less from Teams. A number of different main software program packages have been up to date to run natively on Apple’s new structure over the previous couple of years, from Adobe to Unity to Microsoft’s personal Workplace suite and past.

However Teams most likely will not be the final to make the transfer, as there are nonetheless some stragglers left—even among the many huge hitters.