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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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[–] Talonflame@lemmy.cafe 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm going to name a game I'm making "a game"

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Impossible to pirate. Money printingachine

[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 hours ago

This started a few months ago across the board. It's the dumbest realignment of their application stack ever ... With that being said, I think it's clear that the future of Microsoft is going to be them attempting to move the entire OS experience into the cloud no matter how misguided or unwarranted that approach may be.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

At this point i'm pretty sure most windows users have a degradation fetish they're too ashamed to admit.

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I don't use Microsoft....or apple

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 day ago

Are they doing this on purpose? Why would they even do something like that?

[–] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably another case of too many bean counters (and marketing majors), and not enough software developers. Windows hasn't innovated in forever. Seems like they're the Walmart of operating systems, just cheaper and easier for most people.

[–] pseudonaut@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t want my OS to innovate. I just want it to be reliable. I can say this for MS, I haven’t seen a blue or any other color screen of death for, God, a decade? I’m pretty happy with Windows these days.

[–] OmgItBurns@discuss.online 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I've had the opposite happen since switching to Windows 11. Multiple BSODs a week on both machines. Super frustrating.

[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

If you have the Pro or Enterprise variant of Win11 you can delay feature releases for a year. Makes it way more stable. Here is a link. The anchoring might be off a bit(it was for me). I had to scroll down a bit further. You still get security releases, it’s just all the ‘features’ that get delayed so you can figure out how to work around them.

[–] OmgItBurns@discuss.online 1 points 5 hours ago

Awesome thanks for the info on that.

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ahh windows. How I don’t miss you.

[–] Opacity9850@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Had been windows 10 user since 2015 (no pc before that), installed linux mint a month ago and was surprised how smooth everything was!

Sorry windows but Im never coming back.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah my dad's boss had this issue a couple weeks ago. His remote desktop app disappeared from his phone and he had no idea where. Figured out after looking for a whole day that they renamed it to this stupid bullshit.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Next in line, I guess they can call it just “App”.

Saw this yesterday which is relevant

[–] slappypantsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago

It’s about time that someone cleaned up that stupid mess on the left.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that Steve Jobs with a Butthead mouth? Beautiful.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ed Zitron wrote a blog post I've been thinking about, where he said that a lot of decisions are made by "business idiots" now. People that don't really use or understand the product, and don't really understand the users or their needs. It's an interesting read, even though the guy is rather verbose: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

[–] slappypantsgo@lemm.ee 4 points 13 hours ago

I remember Noam Chomsky talking about this a number of years ago. It’s true. We don’t want technocrats, but worthless dumbfucks are also quite scary.

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[–] altphoto 4 points 22 hours ago

Ever since Ford renamed all car components to car components it has been a total bitch to change a tire....

Me: hello jiffy lube, I have a flat car components.

JL: Well bring it right in, we'll fix that for you

Me: here's the car with the flat car components.

JL: oh I see, you've been in an accident. Yeah we don't fix that sort of flat car components. Go to Joe Shmow's Auto repair.

JSAR: yah, I looked everywhere for a fix to flat components and found nothing worth trying. Cat videos yeah. But maybe if we hammer a few more things.

Me: but that's the problem see this is supposed to be a dowel car component, but its flat. It used to be the thing a ma bob. But now its just another car components.

...the conversation would then drag on and included the economy, and politics.

[–] feechy@retrolemmy.com -2 points 13 hours ago

Windows 10 is my last windows, got 7 years til I go full Linux

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 22 hours ago

Capitalism's innovative creativity on full display.

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Is this year of the Linux Desktop?

[–] polle@feddit.org 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 73 points 1 day ago (14 children)

You'd think a company that runs a search engine would understand SEO...

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

I saw a video recently they said the google search being bad is intentional. Because then you have to spend more time on google, thus seeing more ads.

That’s a bold move cotton. Let’s see how it plays out

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Anti-SEO pushes you to use AI to get help instead

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[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

They don't want you searching it. They want you to pay them to fix it. With Ai presumably

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[–] pappabosley@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago

Makes sense, the CEO was just saying the other day that 30% of their code was written by AI

[–] carrion0409@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I really feel like Microsoft is on a quest to make windows as non user friendly as possible. Everything is hidden behind menus, the search function barely works, the taskbar can't be moved, they're constantly changing program names and can't forget cramming a useless chat bot into the os again. It's just a never ending stream of choices that make literally no sense from the perspective of the end user.

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[–] RaptorBenn@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

MS hasnt improved for the user in about 20 years, not a surprise.

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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

On the phone (well, teams call): "Just open the windows app…"

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 274 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

Oh, I can help remotely... I just need you to open Windows App.

Which app?

Windows App.

I get that, I'm running Windows, but which app?

Windows App.

Look, are you being smart? I'm in Windows, say I click on the Start button, which app do I click on?

Windows App.

Allright you, let's say the app is already running...

Sure.

And I press CTRL-ALT-DEL and open Task Manager.

OK.

WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE APP I WOULD SEE IN TASK MANAGER??!???

Windows App.

I'M ASKING YOU, 'WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE APP'???!??!??

I'm telling you, 'Windows App.'

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[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 65 points 1 day ago (28 children)

recently, I need to remote desktop from Mac to Windows, and I was searching around for products, and I came across a blog post recommending Windows App, and I had no fucking idea what it was. I thought it may have been a windows 8 app that is discontinued. The geniuses at microsoft SUCK at naming. Xbox, Xbox 360, xbox One (which was actually the third iteration, for some reason), xbox series x/s. Like wtf.

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[–] plyth@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

So you need ChatGPT to get a helpful answer.

MS 1 : Google 0

[–] intheformbelow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It's been a while, i think, and yes, it was a pos move.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Good luck even opening it without signing in to a Microsoft account.

"Fuck you, sign in." -Microsoft

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