Tech giant Microsoft is working on a new version of its Teams application which is expected to be launched next month, as per reports.

Tech giant Microsoft is working on a new version of its Teams application which is expected to be launched next month, according to the reports.

The report suggests that the new application has been rebuilt from scratch to improve its system resource usage on PCs and laptops significantly.

The software giant has recently started testing the new Teams client broadly inside Microsoft, with plans to roll out a preview to Microsoft Teams users in March.

The app – known as Microsoft Teams 2.0 or 2.1 internally – should use 50 percent less memory, thus resulting in better battery life on laptops.

Rishi Tandon, the former head of engineering at Microsoft Teams, first outlined the changes or improvements in Microsoft Teams that were in the works in 2021.

“With this change, we are taking a major step in MicrosoftTeams Teams architecture. We are moving away from Electron to Edge Webview2. Teams will continue to remain a hybrid app but now it will be powered by MicrosoftEdge. Also Angular is gone. We are now 100 percent on reacts,” says Tandon.

A fresh, ground-up version of Teams comes at a time when Microsoft is heavily engaged with integrating somethin similar to ChatGPT - a generative AI conversational chatbot - into its ecosystem to get a head start in the race with its rival Google.

Microsoft launched a new version of its search engine Bing that is integrated with OpenAI’s GPT-4 model to provide users with a ChatGPT-like experience.