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.
Microsoft seems lost, they’re so interested in constantly changing everything to steal more of your information instead of just maintaining the massive lead they have.
They can’t seem to just make something work, always manipulating the systems, and such none of it is very good, but when you try to be the best at everything you end up mediocre. Good thing they got a market lock when they did.
I finally had enough about a year ago and decided to bite the bullet and just install Linux. I honestly expected to run into all kinds of problems, particularly since I primarily use my desktop for gaming, but I’ve been very surprised how few problems I’ve actually had. It’s certainly not been completely problem free, but I wouldn’t say I’ve encountered more problems with Linux than I have in Windows. Different problems for sure, but not more, and honestly about equally difficult to fix.
I feel like there’s more options to fix things in Linux. On windows it felt someone’s your just got a brick wall with an issue just because Windows want designed around the fix you envisioned.
What distro are you using? I really wanna take the leap and have the same worries
Linux Mint Cinnamon is very low friction to install and use for first timers from Windows
Linux mint for the first timers or UBUNTU is the safest
We’re still feeling the damage done by the Microsoft monopoly from the '90s. Only historians will be able to say how far they sent us back.
Microsoft is a collection of fiefdoms, each led by a Lord (Product Manager) who drive projects which have two possible motivations: 1) promotion 2) bonus. Quality is not a factor and hasn’t been for decades. Cohesion? No. The lords sometimes fight amongst themselves. They serve the line go up. Everything is line go up. There is no bottom to the products. Line must go up
Well said.
Yep, used to work for them, this is a very accurate and succinct analogy to use.
True pioneers of corporate neofeudalism.
As a Visual Studio Professional user it’s so hard to google help for that too without VSCode leaking into the results.
Damn, what do you mainly use it for? The Form designer?
It’s our IDE of choice at work. Yeah we do some Windows forms stuff but mainly enterprise web applications now using C# .Net Entity Framework, GraphQL, and Typescript React.
Our company is all in on MS, we have windows machines, use Azure etc.
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Nah, it’s basically the only thing I used when I learned it way back at uni. Do enlighten me about your IDE.
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This is some Twitter-tier rebranding failure.
At this point i’m pretty sure most windows users have a degradation fetish they’re too ashamed to admit.
Yep had this issue a while back now took a bunch of searching just to find it so crazy.
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
Phone keyboard mr. orange.
Microsoft also rearranged this guy’s keyboard without saying anything. RIP QWERTY
R.I.P. qwerty indeed I never used it anyway
You just know somebody in that meeting suggested adding “copilot” in there somewhere.
office.com is moving to m365.cloud.microsoft, and renaming to microsoft 365 copilot.
and got a promotion for it
They added copilot to fucking Notepad
Even “App App” would be better.
Even better than that, the old remote desktop app from the Windows store is being discontinued and has a banner at the top telling you to use the Windows app instead. The new Windows app does not support RDP on Windows:
To be fair Store apps need to die. Any multi-user system and its a clusterfuck to keep them updated and secure.
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No they just have no replacement for it yet other than the inbuilt RDP app that comes with Windows (or third party apps). I don’t believe the protocol itself is changing
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It let’s you access Windows 365 and Azure virtual desktops but nothing local
It probably still uses rdp, but doesn’t let you connect to your own instances, just the cloud ones.
Try looking for anything related to “element” or “matrix”… Completely impossible
Sure, though at least it doesn’t take too many words to clarify…
windows app on the other hand…
“gimp, liquify plugin”
dear god
Makes sense, the CEO was just saying the other day that 30% of their code was written by AI
So frustrating. I’ve installed it on a few PCs to access remote desktop services and I can’t figure out how. The old app says to use Windows app as it’s going EoL. Ok. But how? Looks like it’s meant to connect to windows 365 only … or ik a total idiot.
The old app borks the clipboard and the complete explorer on my system at work. It’s gone unfixed for like 2 years. And the windows app is not configured for our company yet, which means I can’t even use it.
People mock App as a Mac thing, iOS thing. But it was never part of the actual app name. Just a file extension.
Well it’s short for Application. Which evolved from what we used to call a program.
Microsoft is fucking retarded.
thats a slur btw.
it’s okay trump won we get to have untermench
They’re the ones who chose the name “Microsoft.”
No, it’s a word that can be used as a slur. In this case I’m talking about a company… hard to use a slur against a company.
re·tard·ed /rəˈtärdəd/
adjective adjective: retarded
- less advanced in mental, physical, or social development than is usual for one’s age.
- very foolish or stupid.
…obviously. did the “fucking” give it away?
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.’
You did it so well, I started hearing it in their voices after a few lines. Well done.
What’s the original? Sounds as fun as ‘Front fell off’
Oh you’re in for a treat!
How Hi is a chinaman?
I would add… Slowly I Turned…
xkcd spotted <3
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