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.
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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.
So you need ChatGPT to get a helpful answer.
MS 1 : Google 0
It's been a while, i think, and yes, it was a pos move.
i usually press win+r and type 'calc' or 'cmd'. they could make that more efficient by assigning binary numbers to everything.
Will it still be port 3389? I think that’s what it is but I’m too lazy to look it up.
Afaik the obly dufference is the name
Obly
Ahh windows. How I don’t miss you.
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.
Oh, those sad, sad motherfuckers. My only concern is too many Linux Immigrants. Stay in your shitty corporate hell. It's not like there's any other option. /s
Ah yes, the "windows app" I remote into Linux on. That's like an ex naming a kid after you levels of crazy.
I haven't found Microsoft Documentation for anything since Word for Mac 5 on my Apple Centris 650 in 1992, and I only had that because it came in a printed book.
So this is on par with the Microsoft way: Let other people charge you for outdated help.
Is this year of the Linux Desktop?
No
I'm morbidly curious where the line is for a global shift. So far it's invisible.
I doubt it will even happen though. Microsoft's forcing AI on everything already and yet it hasn't moved the needle. Microsoft has to do some wilder shit to even move people to Linux. Influencers and awareness don't really help that much as shown by PewDiePie's video about him moving to Linux.
I've been on the brink for a while but learning a whole new OS is going to be hard with a dissociative disorder. though I did just find out game compatibility is way better than I thought, so that's one roadblock down.
im usually the most tech savvy of my friends and no one I know is already using it. That's kind of the situation I assume most people are in. no one they know is using Linux and for whatever reason they don't have the ability or time to learn it themselves.
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.
Was Wheatley a criticism of systemic issues of upper management all along
I didn't believe it until i verified it. This shit is true. Wtf! https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/windows-app-to-replace-remote-desktop-app-for-windows/4390893
Am I reading that wrong or is it just saying the Windows Store version (which was terrible) is going away. It tells you to use the normal remote desktop function that has existed in Windows until they put that new stupidly named app in the Store.
So if you run RDP (can't tell if that's actually mstsc.exe now) it should function as normal.
People should just be able to create their RDP shortcuts as normal and go on with their day by simply ignoring the Microsoft store like most enterprise users have been trying to do all along.
Though I could be wrong, I don't have a windows computer around me to try it on at the moment. I moved my machines at home to different flavors of Linux when I didn't want to figure out comparability work around for 11
I actually just deployed this out at my company and Windows App (or the non Windows Store Remote Desktop App) is required to access AVD and W365 devices. Windows RDP is still present and works for accessing domain joined Windows devices, and both Windows App and Remote Desktop have that functionality as well.
I wonder if that has to do with them trying to integrate access for zero client type setups. If 20 people are remoted into a VM setup but they all are coming from the same rack, the IP/Hostname would be the same in theory, so if you try to RDP to it, the protocol doesn't work properly, it would want to kick all the other users off their instances to let them sign in. Been a bit since I've had tonl manage virtual instances though, so maybe I'm forgetting something.
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