Uncharitable take warning.
My bet is on a PM thinking: "Surely if the project has Windows in its name we can't get laid off".
Also:
Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
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Re: Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
#12Completely agreeing with the other comments but tangent looking at the reference screenshot, does anyone else remember the emotive excitement of building out a new Windows build back in the day, hacking customisation that wasn’t out of the box, and getting that first boot with an exciting new desktop and theme? What times.
Separate observation, that comment trail in the article demonstrates everything about the corporate failure case that is our modern tech stack. If the most enthusiastic early adopters are getting immediately dismissed by the hypercare teams, what hope do the rest of us have. Where is the Netscape/Phoenix/Mozilla/Firefox for Desktop OS? When did we become so complacent about device monopolies?
Re: Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
#13Even though I'm well aware of HN's guideline against shallow dismissals, I still can't help but say it: Worst. Naming choice. Ever. Searching for documentation or assistance relating to "Windows App" will be effectively impossible.
My favourite recent MS naming confusion is myapps.microsoft is a SSO type place similar to Okta, but apps.microsoft is a shop, some of which I might own.
Re: Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
#14From the same branding team that brought you Xbox One and ASP.NET, it's Windows App!
And "Windows Subsystem for Linux".
Which, to my continual surprise, is a subsystem of Windows, not of Linux.
(Yes I realize this makes me sound rather dense.)
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#15Microsoft Remote Desktop is a list of machines to connect to. It doesn't need to be more than that. It's a tool, it has to be functional first. People often have approximately 50 entries in there.
They never asked anyone for feedback. Why are there big squares instead of a list in that screenshot? Why is there a button "All devices"? I want "All devices" right now, from the moment I open the thing.
I certainly hope it won't suck, but it probably will.
Re: Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
#16Even though I'm well aware of HN's guideline against shallow dismissals, I still can't help but say it: Worst. Naming choice. Ever. Searching for documentation or assistance relating to "Windows App" will be effectively impossible.
Sometimes I think that when a Product Manager is feeling unimportant, they rename the product so that every. damn. department. from marketing, to sales, to all the peer products have to take notice. "Fear my importance! I'm changing the name of this product!"
Re: Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
#17Even though I'm well aware of HN's guideline against shallow dismissals, I still can't help but say it: Worst. Naming choice. Ever. Searching for documentation or assistance relating to "Windows App" will be effectively impossible.
Microsoft is so bad with naming I suspect there is a bonus program for employees that can came with the most confusing names.
Re: Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
#18Even though I'm well aware of HN's guideline against shallow dismissals, I still can't help but say it: Worst. Naming choice. Ever. Searching for documentation or assistance relating to "Windows App" will be effectively impossible.
Maybe the whole idea was that people would be looking for other things and accidentally discover that there was a 'Windows app'.
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#19Looking forward to "Linux App".
Re: Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
#20Maybe it alludes to a future where you land directly at the Microsoft Store when you login and from there, everything including the desktop is an App - everything is on Cloud, you don't have any control over your machine (because there is practically nothing local) while simultaneously requiring you to have a 10ghz CPU to see partner-supported-mandatory-value-ad(d)s.