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Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
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Re: Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
#22From the same branding team that brought you Xbox One and ASP.NET, it's Windows App!
I will NEVER understand how the name xbox one could have ever come to exist. Simply unfathomable.
Re: Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
#23Even 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.
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#24If I were a senior executive at MSFT I would probably ask someone to send me the personnel files for the people who figured it was a good idea to pointlessly rebrand something from a descriptive name that is understandable to something pointless and generic. Because these are almost certainly managers who have nothing better to do and should be trimmed out of the org chart.
I'm not kidding.
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#25Even 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.
That’s not even close. Microsoft churns out incredibly awful names. The “Defender” family is probably the most egregious example today. I’m sure the enterprise version will be Azure Windows 365 App for Business E3. But it won’t be compatible with one of the 4 hosted windows desktop solutions that Microsoft ships lol, but nobody will be sure of which one!
"Windows App" is way worse. You won't be able to reliably find information about it
Re: Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
#26From the same branding team that brought you Xbox One and ASP.NET, it's Windows App!
I just had a look at the Xbox models. There's no way to know what order they were released in. 360. 1. X. S.
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#27Have you used the Windows App?
Which Windows App?
Google it!
Oh, you mean the Windows App Store?
No, the new Remote Desktop Windows App.
You mean there's a new version of Remote Desktop?
Yes, and it's called Windows App.
Right, it's always been a Windows app.
No! It's THE Windows App now. Get it?
No, I don't get it.
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#28From the same branding team that brought you Xbox One and ASP.NET, it's Windows App!
Xbox One isn't even that bad compared to XBox Series X and S following the XBox One X and S.
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#30From 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.)
It's almost like PR said "Windows" had to be prominent in the name.