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#33"With this general availability launch, users of Remote Desktop clients for Windows, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and web will transition to Windows App." I installed the Windows App on Windows and the first screen prompts with "Connect to your cloud resources with a work or school account. Sign in". This definitely does not make Windows App seem like a replacement for Remote Desktop, which requires no cloud account.
Microsoft's desperation to have everyone make a Microsoft account is becoming pervasive throughout their operating system and application portfolio.
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#34Have 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…
Azure has already been renamed ‘Entra’. Get with the times.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm sure they're saving that one for the version of Windows that is actually just Teams + Cortana
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#36This is the worst explanation of a new product that I've seen since Google Buzz.
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#37I think some of what's depicted is what Windows RT should have been. There was lots of talk in the 2011 era about docking your tablet and getting a full desktop experience, and similar things. Some of the video is showing similar scenarios.
I thought back then that the biggest mistake was to not lean more heavily into the existing Win32 ecosystem, which was the one big asset Microsoft had. Imagine if they had spent less time building tablet UIs nobody wanted, and more time working on solutions to let people access the Win32 world from your tablet, which is what I see in this video.
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#38Just remember fam: you can use the Windows App on macOS to connect to a Linux RDP session, but you cannot use the Windows App on Windows to connect to a regular Windows RDP session :) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-app/get-started-co...
Can I run the Windows App in Windows Subsystem for Linux to connect to a Windows RDP session?
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#39Microsoft 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…
It reminded me of everything and anything AI related being called Copilot.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That's probably earmarked for the next re-branding of Microsoft Azure AD Active Entra