Microsoft Teams on Raspberry Pi: coming soon?!

 

During the "new normal" the education will be virtual, as it is for the most of white collar workers. Kids go to use their Tablets, Laptops and Smartphones to connect with their teachers and classmates using teams. For my kids this is a permanent switch between the Mac and the iPad. Depending on their class and the battery level :)

Since there are some interesting STEM classes, where the kids use a Raspberry Pi as Desktop PC. My Idea here is to use a Pi, stream the Video out to the TV and use a camera and BT Headsets - and run Teams on the Pi. Unfortunately there is no existing ARM Linux package from Microsoft. Every approach with an x86 emulator failed.

There is a Teams Linux ARM Repo from Microsoft but it does not have to much content.

While googling for a solution I realized that there is a punch of lads looking form ARM64 based Teams - unfortunately mostly for Windows on ARM. And it seems their voice is heard by the Tech Giant Microsoft. According to their uservoice forum for Team, a Microsoft Engineer gave some hope that there will be a Window on ARM Teams package.

Microsoft's user voice forum

I am full of hope, that this development will also bring us a Linux ARM64 Teams package. There are more request for Linux packages than for WoA. So... what do you think? Will 2020 bring us a ARM Teams on Linux?