Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it.

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

So…yeah. Seems MS, in their endless wisdom has decided to rename their virtual desktop software, called before as “Remote Desktop” (and good luck trying to find issues with that that are not related to the old RDP tool MTSC.exe) to… “Windows App”. Perfect. Now everything will look like everything, and there’s no way to ever try to search for help for it. Next in line, I guess they can call it just “App”. I’m sure that will help everyone.

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Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
What will it take for them to finally lose market share?

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- wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m seeing mini pcs for sale for basically the same price as a windows license. They must be quite literally giving them away at this point to compete with Linux.
  
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- Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  When Windows 12 is also sucks.
  
  TBF, they are probably losing a little bit. I’m in the process of jumping to Linux, and I started on Microsoft operating systems at age 4.
  
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  - Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Kinda same. I’ve been MS for a long time. Moving towards Linux daily
    
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Whatever? Just use a 3rd-party remote client, like any sane person would do. Microsoft is bad at software design.

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- BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What do you use that is better than windows remote desktop ?
  
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  - MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Better is relative but i found xrdp easy to use. You give it the link on cli/shortcut, it opens the window with the remote and be done.
    
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klay@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Wait. Is this a push to use their AI more? Like i can’t google for Remote Desktop help with the new name easily anymore so i would use the ai, which already sees that i opened the app and has a context advantage?

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golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
As long as they havent renamed the back end name, can probably still search for information relating to it by referring to it as mstsc.exe.

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panicnow@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I hate that they renamed it on iOS but not Mac. Now my fingers can’t remember just one thing.

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Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Just switched to FreeRDP.

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kamen@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Can’t not think of Apple who have been doing simple names like this forever. But contrary to this here, it seems to work in the Apple ecosystem because over there things like that mean one thing.

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- ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  “Help with numbers”
  
  “Help with excel”
  
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  - kamen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, some of them like this one are not very well thought out, but I think for the most part they are - and when you put them in context, they should be searchable too. I’m saying this as someone who has never owned anything from Apple and who generally dislikes the brand.
    
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Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
lemmy.world/post/30064703

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