Microsoft may finally make Microsoft Teams less of a laggy mess

Microsoft may finally make Microsoft Teams less of a laggy mess

By Simon Batt
Publication Date: 2025-11-28 07:51:00

Summary

  • New child process ms-teams_modulehost.exe handles the calling stack separately to speed up Teams startup.
  • The new process appears under ms-teams.exe in Task Manager and won’t need any special setup.
  • Rollout starts early January 2026, worldwide by late Jan; hopeful it makes Teams snappier, but delays possible.

Have you noticed that Microsoft Teams takes quite a while to load things? If so, you’re not alone. In the past, people have taken to various social media outlets to fume about how slow Teams can take to get everything loaded and ready to go, and until now, Microsoft hasn’t really done a lot about it.

However, that might be…