

The new Teams Preview app also has a simplified section with different sections for Auto-start settings, Notifications, Appearance and accessibility, and Privacy. The app also supports native Windows 10 notifications, which the Electron app also supports but only for work accounts. The first thing you’ll notice is that you can now resize the app windows just the way you want it, something that the Electron app doesn’t let you do. The new Microsoft Teams Preview app doesn’t look that different from the existing Teams Electron app, but it does feel much faster. Windows Insider MVP Florian B tipped us about the app earlier today and we’ve since been able to get it running on multiple Windows PCs without any trouble. The well-known leaker WalkingCat shared a link for the installer back in May, but to our knowledge, the app didn’t allow anyone to log in with their personal Microsoft account until very recently. Well, we managed to get our hands on this new Teams 2.0 app today, which is currently in preview but already looks very promising.

The company said at the time that its new "Teams 2.0” architecture would power the consumer experience in Microsoft Teams as well as the new build-in Teams consumer experience on Windows 11, with support for work accounts coming later. Microsoft recently announced at its Windows 11 event on June 24 that it was working on a revamped Teams app that will bring big performance improvements by ditching the Electron framework in favor of Edge Webview 2.
