Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App
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I'm not kidding.
Seems like the point might be to obscure the nature of the executable, i.e., what it does. Why someone might want to do that is a question left for the reader.
Which Windows App?
Google it!
Oh, you mean the Windows App Store?
No, the new Remote Desktop Windows App.
You mean there's a new version of Remote Desktop?
Yes, and it's called Windows App.
Right, it's always been a Windows app.
No! It's THE Windows App now. Get it?
No, I don't get it.
Do you have a Live account? Or Office 365? Do you open a web browser to sign in?
I have had to ask non-technical people this and they're confused beyond belief.
They never asked anyone for feedback. Why are there big squares instead of a list in that screenshot? Why is there a button "All devices"? I want "All devices" right now, from the moment I open the thing.
I certainly hope it won't suck, but it probably will.
Start with: why are we even renaming this thing? Everyone already knows the name. The new name is not going to make us any more money. So what are we doing?
Next: is there any chance "Windows App" will be confusing for, I dunno, practically everybody? (I realize everyone else here has pointed this out.)
Maybe the decision to rename was made by AI.
https://genius.com/Abbott-and-costello-whos-on-first-annotat...
Separate observation, that comment trail in the article demonstrates everything about the corporate failure case that is our modern tech stack. If the most enthusiastic early adopters are getting immediately dismissed by the hypercare teams, what hope do the rest of us have. Where is the Netscape/Phoenix/Mozilla/Firefox for Desktop OS? When did we become so complacent about device monopolies?
When Ballmer was in charge, his theme was that Microsoft should be "devices and services" company. My guess is that Microsoft now wants to be "services" company. In that light, "Remote Desktop" does not quite fit because in the future everything is an App which is a SAAS that we will pay a subscription to.
Which, to my continual surprise, is a subsystem of Windows, not of Linux.
(Yes I realize this makes me sound rather dense.)
My bet is on a PM thinking: "Surely if the project has Windows in its name we can't get laid off".
Also:
By your reasoning, it's possibly "career down" for a PM to name their project "terminal."
I think the Windows 365 App is a different application than Microsoft Remote Desktop.
insane
i'll say it again, if the west goes all in with microsoft, it'll collapse
I’m sure the enterprise version will be Azure Windows 365 App for Business E3. But it won’t be compatible with one of the 4 hosted windows desktop solutions that Microsoft ships lol, but nobody will be sure of which one!
Windows Defender? Defender for Endpoint? Microsoft 365 Defender? Defender for Office 365? Whatever the Defender that comes with the product formerly known as SCCM is called?
Well, the person who wrote the tech blogpost that was linked here is :
>Hilary Braun
>I'm a Senior Product Manager for Windows 365, focused on providing a great experience for people using Windows in the cloud with the Windows App.
So, Bingo! It's indeed most likely a case of needing to feel important. After all, you're the manager of something absolutely nobody cares about, as long as it works as intended. The RDP features of Windows are the kind of thing you only notice if they do not work properly, if they work fine, they're just another tool in the box, no more exciting to look at or talk about than hammers and screwdrivers. I would even suggest watching paint dry is more entertaining than having to listen to a manager talk about their brand rebranding of the computer equivalent of a screwdriver.