Windows App now available on all major platforms

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Post by alexrustic » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 5:08 PM UTC

Windows App now available on all major platforms
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Post by QuercusMax » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 5:43 PM UTC

It's an RDP client / management UI, I guess?

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Post by tux3 » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 5:46 PM UTC

QuercusMax wrote: post #2

It'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.

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Post by oldpersonintx » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 5:48 PM UTC

one 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...

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Post by nneonneo » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 5:49 PM UTC

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Post by sempron64 » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 5:53 PM UTC

This is the most confusing branding since Xbox One.

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Post by tsujamin » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 5:53 PM UTC

Just 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...

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Post by dangger » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 5:54 PM UTC

nneonneo wrote: post #5

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to piss you off

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Post by johnklos » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 5:55 PM UTC

Microsoft 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" replacement for Microsoft's "Remote Desktop". I'm assuming it's 100% Microsoft cloud based, although I'd be curious if it can be used without the Internet.

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Post by xnx » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 5:58 PM UTC

"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.