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

Submitted ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
As a Visual Studio Professional user it’s so hard to google help for that too without VSCode leaking into the results.

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- Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Damn, what do you mainly use it for? The Form designer?
  
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  - dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s our IDE of choice at work. Yeah we do some Windows forms stuff but mainly enterprise web applications now using C# .Net Entity Framework, GraphQL, and Typescript React.
    
    Our company is all in on MS, we have windows machines, use Azure etc.
    
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  - DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You realise visual studio has more features in professional worlds besides the old winforms formbuilder… Right?
    Let alone blazor runs better in visual studio than vscode…
    
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1984@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Still laughing my ass off… Imagine trying to Google for solutions to “windows app” :) :)

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- explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Gnobody’s laughing at our Krogram names now!
  
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wall_panel_96@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Microsoft never ceases to amaze me with anti consumer decisions.

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Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Bet: They will implement a chatbot using recall as Windows help, integrate it into something like Windows help and make a premium version of a stupid AI try to reverse engineering what you tried to do while guessing for Solutions neither the operator nor the ai understands. Is there a “remind me in 3 years”?

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GreenSofaBed@feddit.is ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I knew I had remote desktop on my work laptop, because I had used it before, but the other day I was trying to open remote desktop and nothing came up, so I created an IT support ticket only for them to tell me it was now called Windows App…

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radix@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You just know somebody in that meeting suggested adding “copilot” in there somewhere.

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- RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  and got a promotion for it
  
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  - Archer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    They added copilot to fucking Notepad
    
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- Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  office.com is moving to m365.cloud.microsoft, and renaming to microsoft 365 copilot.
  
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cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
gonna install my windows app on windows to remote into my windows and troubleshoot windows.

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w3dd1e@lemm.ee ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I saw this on my work computer the other day and I couldn’t figure out what the fuck it was. This explains it. Wtf

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MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is some Twitter-tier rebranding failure.

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TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
These assholes are prepping up with a cloud service with a name change like that.

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Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Wait, are they doing a Boeing over there at Microsoft? Did they take all of the marketing people and put them in charge? Surely they had people that work there that saw this problem instantly but they were either ignored or they said nothing which says a lot about what they’ve got going on internally at Microsoft.

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- chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I don’t love the field, but a competent marketing department has no interest in creating confusing product names. Being easily found in a Google search is like the number 1 thing they care about.
  
  They’d be more likely to rename it something like “Remote Desktop: By Microsoft” or “CoPilot Remote Desktop”. Something stupid, but recognizable.
  
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- ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Wait, are they doing a Boeing over there at Microsoft?
  
  What, killing whistleblowers?
  
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  - Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Lol. Wouldn’t shock me
    
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
When it’s all the same you can ask for it by name.

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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Amd on Windows they removed the functionality to remote into other machines.
Only business accounts for now.
But not for Android, iOS/MacOS.
Like whaaaaaat???

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- kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  So glad they got rid of the one thing 99.9% of people use it for! /s
  
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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Try looking for anything related to “element” or “matrix”… Completely impossible

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- Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  “gimp, liquify plugin”
  
  dear god
  
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- jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Sure, though at least it doesn’t take too many words to clarify…
  
  windows app on the other hand…
  
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Wutchilli@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is funny and sad at the same time

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cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
So frustrating. I’ve installed it on a few PCs to access remote desktop services and I can’t figure out how. The old app says to use Windows app as it’s going EoL. Ok. But how? Looks like it’s meant to connect to windows 365 only … or ik a total idiot.

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- sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The old app borks the clipboard and the complete explorer on my system at work. It’s gone unfixed for like 2 years. And the windows app is not configured for our company yet, which means I can’t even use it.
  
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fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Just like Team’s Teams.

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- jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Do you mean teams for work or school or teams for personal?
  
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  - Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    No, teams classic (new).
    
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  - Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    New (New) Diet Teams Classic 2 (deprecated) XL New!
    
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lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Dealing with this shit at work right now because one of the vendors requires it. I have yet to run into someone in IT who knows wtf I’m talking about.

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- Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I know it.
  
  I’ve got a bunch of AVD machines and the Windows app seems to be the best way to connect users to them.
  
  Although, in the last week, it’s been freezing for some people and I have to switch them over to the web portal for a day or two. Still chasing that issue down.
  
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jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Just the other day there was a post in a Linux memes com about how everything was called an app now.

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chonkyninja@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
They did this like a year or so back.

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- Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s strange given the announcement was made on 11 March 2025 and will be effective as of 27 May 2025.
  
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  - Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    They renamed it on other platforms (apple) in September 2024 neowin.net/…/microsoft-is-renaming-its-remote-des…
    
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x00z@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
VNC to the rescue.

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ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Which windows app are you referring to?

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Dojan@pawb.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Would recommend RustDesk instead.

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- Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yep, been using it for years now.
  
  Moved over from RealVNC due to licensing limitations and problems with speed and I’ve never looked back.
  
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paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
People mock App as a Mac thing, iOS thing. But it was never part of the actual app name. Just a file extension.

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- jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Well it’s short for Application. Which evolved from what we used to call a program.
  
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  - paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Of course it is. That’s not my point. My point was Microsoft is tasteless to include it in the app name.
    
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anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Microsoft has the WORST product people

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dditty@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Can anyone recommend a Remote Desktop client for macOS, preferably something free and with tabs?

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- Hybris@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Windows App
  
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datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Christ, it was stupid when they renamed it on macOS… this is just embarrassing now.

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Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
What will it take for them to finally lose market share?

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- wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Kinda same. I’ve been MS for a long time. Moving towards Linux daily
    
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨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 ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What do you use that is better than windows remote desktop ?
  
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  - MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨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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golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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