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Windows App now available on all major platforms
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Re: Windows App now available on all major platforms
#22This is the most confusing branding since Xbox One.
Intel Core 2 Duo, Dual Core CPU..
Re: Windows App now available on all major platforms
#23It's an RDP client / management UI, I guess?
Yes, the copy is obfuscated, but this is a new remote desktop tool, like VNC, RDP, or Teamviewer.
It is not "new". In the Mac space it was called "Microsoft Remote Desktop Client" and that client had messages saying it was going to be renamed in the near future for the last few weeks. It's just largely a UI facelift.
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#24I hope this will be as pleasant and performant as Teams aka how to make your 16-core CPU feel like it is an Intel Atom from 2009.
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#25The immediate impact of this is simple, Remote Desktop apps previously made by Microsoft are being re-branded to be the "Windows App"
As far as long-term impact, Im curious to know how this might impact Windows developers. Does this push developers to choose native platforms over the unnecessary aditional abstration of running within windows? IE: If your user base simply starts using their iphones to occasionally access your application via the windows app, does this push your team to just choose to build an iphone app?
Or does this become the best way for developers to build a cross-platform experiences?
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#26one more step to a fully-rented, all-in-the-cloud business "PC" security is easy because you aren't running anything locally, can't save anything locally, probably can't even do true copy/paste when they want to fire you, the client reboots and you have nothing from your job accessible anymore and you wonder why Microsoft is so busy building hundreds of Azure datacenters...
We've had this at the uni twenty years ago, in form of thin Linux workstations, connecting over XDMCP to a central server which served individual desktop sessions over the network.
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#27Microsoft has an app called, "Windows App". Perhaps this shouldn't be surprising from a company that named their OS after a single featur, but this name is so much worse. What does it do? The name doesn't say at all. Did it really occur to nobody at Microsoft that "now open the Windows App app" is going to confuse a lot of people? Even after reading the whole article, all I can infer is that this is a "seamless" repl…
Microsoft seems to be terrible at naming things, but their strategy is to confuse people when their products get labeled as garbage and have a stigma attached so they can just change the name again.
I'm more surprised they didn't call it Microsoft One.
Re: Windows App now available on all major platforms
#28The immediate impact of this is simple, Remote Desktop apps previously made by Microsoft are being re-branded to be the "Windows App" As far as long-term impact, Im curious to know how this might impact Windows developers. Does this push developers to choose native platforms over the unnecessary aditional abstration of running within windows? IE: If your user base simply starts using their iphones to occasionally acc…
I'm confused by your question because this isn't anything new. They just renamed the old Remote Desktop App which was already available for alternate platforms like MacOS. I don't see how that changes anything for developers that they couldn't do before.
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#29Have you tried the Windows App? You mean Windows? No, I mean the app. Which app? The Windows app. Is it in the Windows app store? Yes, and you can use it to connect to your other devices. Oh, so like RDP? Sort of. But you need an MS 365 subscription to use it. Also, you cannot connect to remote desktop services from a Windows OS using Windows App, only MacOS, iOS or Android. So I should get a Mac or Android to use th…
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