Windows as an App sounds like I’m going to connect to windows 365 on azure
Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
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Re: Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
#42From 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.)
To be fair, "for" is one of the most overloaded prepositions in the English language. "for [use by]" and "for [doing/acting as]" are still both "for" in short hand, you need more context in English to distinguish, including verbal clues that don't exist in the written language (how you pause between words and/or how you emphasize the syllable "for"). English is a strange contextual language; it is still Microsoft's marketers fault for finding and relying on so many of the weird edge cases, but they didn't invent the weird edge cases in the language.
Re: Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
#43> The Windows 365 App will undergo an in-place update to transition to Windows App.
I think the Windows 365 App is a different application than Microsoft Remote Desktop.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Worse than what?
Windows Defender? Defender for Endpoint? Microsoft 365 Defender? Defender for Office 365? Whatever the Defender that comes with the product formerly known as SCCM is called?
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#46This reminds me of Google Nest's three thermostat models: The Nest E, Nest Learning and the Nest. It's confusing even in their own marketing and support info.
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#47If 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.
Pretty sure this came from a senior executive and the people under him were staring each other wondering..
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#48Microsoft 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 i…
Microsoft Remote Desktop for the Mac is a grid of thumbnails already. There is a list view but it isn't the default.
Android too
Re: Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
#49Please tell me I can still "WIN + R" -> mstsc
Re: Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
#50From the same branding team that brought you Xbox One and ASP.NET, it's Windows App!
And multiple Azure services named Fabric.