Microsoft is doing away with the feature that puts all users of a Teams meeting in the same virtual room and is steering people towards Gallery.
Microsoft justified dumping the feature, known as Together, by saying it “increases cognitive load for users,” and “adds implementation complexity across platforms.” The company also suggested that the mode could create a choppy video experience on mobile and other “modest” devices that may lack processing power.
Microsoft also said that Gallery mode, by contrast, will allow “smoother video on modest devices,” via the adaptive video tile counts that could prevent machine overload. It will also simplify the meeting interface and the resources that could be allocated to improvements, such as higher resolution, denoising, and improved colour accuracy.
As Engadget pointed out, Teams has received a lot of dislike, with one of the main reasons for the hate being performance issues and being overly complex. Simplifying the interface alongside dumping together could help fix these issues, only if Microsoft diverts the resources from Together to the fixes the company has promised.
Source: Engadget
