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It's confusing. Thought it was something sandboxed.
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This sounds like an Onion article headline
This is not confusing. AT ALL!
The Android version of the app still has the zoom/cursor offset bug when using a software keyboard from when they sunset RDP 8. That has been a severe usability bug for over three years now.
I'm just here for the yo dawg memes.
I hope they’ve made it easier
The irony is that I do, in fact, like mudkips.
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This will be really easy to google for.
/s
And I thought developers were bad at naming.
The Microsoft school of naming things is really showing their ways
MSN Live! Windows App Professional for Business NT
Developers are usually not bad at naming. Marketing on the other hand...
AbstractAppEngineFactoryFacade would have been much better
For more, check out my blog devsArentBadAtNamingThings.blogspot.tar.7z.com
Kamoulox
Much more interesting is the part about Relayed RDP Shortpath. With STUN and TURN and even a relay it sounds like this will enable some usecases similar to TeamViewer
Yo dawg, I heard you like Windows, so we put Windows in your Windows so you can use Windows while you use Windows
Lol, they're just renaming Remote Desktop to Windows.
So I can use Windows to connect to Windows, and run my Windows.
Truly a moment of marketing brilliance.
I use RDP app today to log on to my Pc remotely by using vpn to my home network. It looks like they are adding bloat for services that I have zero interest in. Or maybe they are adding authentication services so the vpn wouldn't be necessary.
It's as confusing as those adware and spyware ridden one-purpose tools from no-name Chinese developers.
They love to do this. 2 years ago they renamed Office (the online, browser based version) to Microsoft 365 https://www.computerworld.com/article/1614302/office-to-be-rebranded-microsoft-365.html
They can present the "new" apps to shareholders
If you think this is bad, then you haven't tried navigating the MS academic offerings. Over the last 10 or so years, I think it's been called "dreamspark", "imagine", "MSDN Academic Alliance" (I liked this one, it actually made sense), "MSDN AA", and now "Azure Dev Tools for Teaching" or "adt4t" when talking with support.
rant mode ON
Everytime the name is changed, it seems something else changes (OK it's a new product) and the way to access installers and activate it differs. I just want to teach, but every couple of years I have to spend days trying to figure out how to get my iso's and how to renew the subscription. A couple of years ago, and mind you this was after I had had an active academic relationship with Microsoft for 8 years, and my predecessor even longer than that before me, we had to submit invoices proving that the school owned the domainname for our emails and website, as well as a letter from the ministry of education that we were licensed to teach this course.
The support staff is very professional and helpful, and we've always been able to resolve renewal issues. But each year we have to go through the process of getting through a maze of support pages linking to chatbots, to find the correct form to contact support. I think the link to support form had the text "Beware of the leopard".
This comes full circle with everyone's grandma incessantly calling every piece of software on their computer "The Microsoft."
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At least they didn't cancel it and make two new programs that each do 70% of what it did. Looking at you, Google.
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The only possible way Microsoft can be this bad at naming things is if they are actively doing it on purpose.
How can they expect regular people to remember what the Windows app does? It would seriously be better to pick a word at random than to overload the meaning of "Windows" again.
Here are some way better names right off the top of my head:
- Kablam!
- Telefenestra
- Portle
- Microsoft micro/do
Telefenestra
Is that where you defenestrate somebody remotely?
Da, comrade.
Marklar!
Gold medal of tautology. At this point, people still using windows voluntarily don't deserve any better. And IT departments having a choice but forcing windows on users deserve to be burned at the stake.
And IT departments having a choice but forcing windows on users deserve to be burned at the stake.
Not a small thing to rip all the wires out of the walls. Moving to an entirely new office-wide OS is a heavy lift.
Fuck right off with this elitist "they deserve it" shit
Do I sense some inner tensions due to frustration with using Microsoft's sorry excuse for an OS?
Ah yes, the always shitty, "I know everything because I am that business and person all the time and better than them." Shit fucking comment.
At this point people who are like, "just use Linux" sound like, "just buy an iPhone." The only difference is the Linux people don't end up actually knowing shit about enterprise environments
I will get down voted because Lemmy is an Echo Chamber with people circle jerking their self justified opinions.
But seriously fuck off, dude. Anyone that literally says this doesn't know shit about an actual environment.
Let me know when fucking Oracle's shitty products work better on Linux boxes over Windows when their own fucking Linux products don't work. I will go to the business I am a part of right now and let them know we should just hire you to make all of our financial and enterprise setup choices because you said so.
You have zero reading comprehension. Good job wasting your time on a pointless rant.
Booooooo
Do they have some new techbro CEO?
yo dawg
Did they just reinvent Norton PC Anywhere?
Classic Microsoft, muddying the waters of something that was clearly defined in its role and name
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