Ridiculously high amount of ram usage in Teams.

Sorry but youre answer, from a developer perspective is a big NO.

You cannot have a development that is Inefficient. Not today, not in 2020. It might have been okay in the stone age of the early 90's, but you won't sell a product with such logic.

I cannot recommend this software to people who are working from home, they got minimal hardware (4-8GB ram in their laptop) and they are also working with large files, like excel, powerpoint, and they need a solution for all of what teams would combine nicely, but eating up quarter of the resources on their laptops. Not gonna happen.

Those tabs, if not required, need to be cleaned from ram, simple as that. Need to make sure they load in from cache properly, fast, when they are needed. Development basics. And I'm pretty sure I don't have to explain this to Microsoft, they are lightyears of better programmers than me ever will be. But the logic you described is accurate. Inefficient, yes.

And that is unacceptable, not just in IT but in every industry. Would a Tesla car with inefficient energy consumption be okay? Would an airplane?

That is exactly the same logic that cannot be tolerated even if we talking about a "mere" application.

Developers need to rethink, and fix. Thats all my request to any MS support person seeing this and make sure devs got the feedback.

I am using a surface pro 6 with 8 GB ram for work from home. Guess what. the same problem . 

Only with Ms teams, Ms outlook and Ms Edge, 85% ram is used resulting in a sluggish performance, which i cannot expect from a surface device atleast. 

After going through surface support teams assistance, did a hard reset. 

this is for the knowledge and awareness of all who get a similar advise . 

No point doing hard reset. 

I agree with the posts in this forum. Its just in efficient way of developing a software and sadly microsoft has made me believe that an 8 GB ram device is of no use if one wants to work with these 3 basic Microsoft applications also.

Go have a look at How Microsoft Teams uses memory - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs

And you're correct, the way they programmed Teams is really lazy and inefficient...

No one from the Teams development team will see what you posted. 

As for the Team's App, at its most basic it is a web browser. All those tabs in the app, are just web pages. So yes, it will take up memory just like you see Chrome using. Inefficient, yes, but considering it needs to work across many platforms and devices likely the most developer friendly.

Again, no one from the Teams developer team is going to see you wrote and no one is going to forward it.

The one place where they will see any useful suggestions would be at https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/. Don't expect a response nor that they'll work on it, but at least you can leave a productive suggestion there and if the stars align just right, they might take action (but don't hold your breath).