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It's confusing. Thought it was something sandboxed.
I'm just here for the yo dawg memes.
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.
This is not confusing. AT ALL!
And I thought developers were bad at naming.
The Microsoft school of naming things is really showing their ways
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
This will be really easy to google for.
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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.
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
This comes full circle with everyone's grandma incessantly calling every piece of software on their computer "The Microsoft."
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".
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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.
At least they didn't cancel it and make two new programs that each do 70% of what it did. Looking at you, Google.
It's as confusing as those adware and spyware ridden one-purpose tools from no-name Chinese developers.
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The irony is that I do, in fact, like mudkips.
Yo dawg, I heard you like Windows, so we put Windows in your Windows so you can use Windows while you use Windows
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!
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yo dawg
I hope they’ve made it easier
Classic Microsoft, muddying the waters of something that was clearly defined in its role and name
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Did they just reinvent Norton PC Anywhere?
Is that kind of like how I talk to my team on the team's app and send files and messages to them in the team in the teams app?
They seriously need a new marketing group.
It's like how they made the Xbox, then the Xbox one, then the Xbox one X, then the Xbox series X. (Yeah there were other options between/simultaneous, but this sequence is a nice clean illustration.)
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Teams in Teams is the naming I hate the most. Should have called them communities to match Viva Engage (Yammer) or just groups.
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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
what the hell microsoft
They literally ran out of ideas, like, 20 years ago?
They've just been trying to say random-ass shit to justify their marketing budget since then.
Windows basically stopped around 7 and mostly went backwards, and when is the last time you thought about the version of office you use? Do you even use office, or can you get by with google docs?
OneDrive is by far more of a pain in the ass than anything else, nobody ever WANTS to use it, they mostly get hijacked by it early on and try to ignore it like a masturbating hobo on a subway car.
- Xzibit enters the chat *
Upvoted for title.
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