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.
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Mainframe for the home user, with all files on their servers and, thus, controlled by them. That's always been their goal, but the tech just didn't exist until recently.
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.
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Next in line, I guess they can call it just “App”.
Saw this yesterday which is relevant
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I'm going to name a game I'm making "a game"
could it be that i already lost the game?
Impossible to pirate. Money printingachine
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/
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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You'd think a company that runs a search engine would understand SEO...
They don't want you searching it. They want you to pay them to fix it. With Ai presumably
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This would probably matter more if every search for "windows 10 problem XY" wouldn't turn up 100% garbage from their support forums anyway.
Hello my name is Ranjid, im a MSVP, but not associated with Microsoft. Have you tried reinstalling Windows or talking to your system administrator?
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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.
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
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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.
Are they doing this on purpose? Why would they even do something like that?
Having worked on products that are renamed to something equally ambiguous, I'd say they are trying to make it more difficult to find because they are trying to redirect customer attention to other places, and are deliberately making it difficult to talk about or search for. Unfortunately this is a very successful strategy. It's also very user hostile, and product engineer hostile. My heart goes out to any engineers that work in this product.
So they dont want people using remote desktop? What would they even get out of that, just making windows even worse to use. I guess its one less thing to maintain. Well, windows becoming worse is good for linux userbase so this is kind of good news in a way.
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.
Windows 1, 2, 3, 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7????, 8, 8.1, 10????, 11, 11 21H2, 11 22H2, .......
You forgot Windows 3.1. That one was a pretty significant update
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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.
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.
I've had the opposite happen since switching to Windows 11. Multiple BSODs a week on both machines. Super frustrating.
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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:
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Did Microsoft leave their marketing department to AI or something? They really seem to be dropping the ball rn with app names, and recognition.
(Teams New vs. Teams (New))
Outlook (deprecated)
New Outlook
Outlook
New Outlook 3DS XL
Outlook (new)
Outlook (New)
Microsoft Outlook
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Makes sense, the CEO was just saying the other day that 30% of their code was written by AI
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
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Corporate brain rot. Or they want the ability it provides to die.
HBO Max -> Max -> HBO Max again
Tropicana removing fruit imagery from their fucking fruit juices
The 12 or more fucking copilots
Convert kit to Seva (or whatever)
Loads recently I'm forgetting
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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.
At this point i'm pretty sure most windows users have a degradation fetish they're too ashamed to admit.
The world is controlled by idiots and I'm told I'm the fool for not following along
Just keep using Remote Desktop Connection aka mstsc.exe?
It's even recommended by Microsoft:
Although replacements have been released, as of the release of the Windows App, Remote Desktop Client is still recommended for use.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Remote_Desktop_Protocol_clients
That's how Windows rolls out every unpopular feature.
- Simply don't upgrade it!
- You can prevent the upgrade with this setting.
- You can turn off the upgrade in the control panel.
- You can turn off the upgrade in the registry.
- It's a different place in the registry now.
- You can run a 3rd party app to make it stop.
- It's always been like this and you're being weird.
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