I was in a computer store a few years ago watching a young guy trying to sell a tablet to an older woman. He said "the good news about this is that it can't get viruses because it runs apps".
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Tztztz...didn't he know that a full virus protection is only achieved when you run apps that run ads?
everyone knows viruses are allergic to apps
Ill bet anything they laughed about that in the breakroom
I'd bet they believed it themselves.
If you assume that she will only install official apps, that they are sandboxed and Apple doesn't allow viruses in App Store apps, then that statement seems fine to me.
Every networked computer has some risk of getting a viris of course.
I mean yeah like you can be a pedant about it but all in all its a statement that makes sense. Apps on both android and ios are very sandboxed, even if you go out of your way to install malware there's very limited damage it can do, barring zerodays in the sandboxing itself.
The top bit got me recently, I hadn’t needed to remote into my desktop in a while and searched “Remote” and “RDP” and found nothing. Eventually I found it was renamed to the windows app and finally logged in but was baffled as to why they would do that.
This is the dumbest rebranding ever. If I tried really hard to make it as dumb as possible, I'd still not be able to come up with such a horrendously bad idea.
Even if they renamed it to “Now You Too Can Have Magical Long Fingers and Vision” it would be somewhat descriptive of what it does.
Like how many people were involved in this decision? Let's just call it "computer program".
They could have named it Window window but that might have been too descriptive
Marketing really has just ran away with everything. I wonder what they'll rename the console as
Yep - 'open with m365 copilot' has such a ring to it. Why they threw out their decades recognisable office branding is beyond me
The App Box?
Worse than Twitter to X? At least windows app is loosely related to the original overall branding
It would be more like renaming twitter to internet website, which yes, despite everything, is worse than X.
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The problem is that everything that runs on windows is a windows app.
I use Remote Desktop it a lot, and was warned about the changing name beforehand. And yet when one day the old application disappeared from my dock, I had the same reaction. I thought company IT or a macOS update might’ve screwed me over.
I’m used to it now, but that was a strange day.
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Let me start a team for my team in Teams.
Don't get me started on the difference between a group and a Group…
Does the team for your team have a theme in Teams yet?
If you don't know how to set up themes in Teams, you can ask Tim from the theme team on Teams.
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You can probably add “website” to the list.
Hm, this one intrigues me: what is commonly referred to as a website, without actually being a website?
I think they meant all of the apps that are just a website with a wrapper.
This infuriates me to no end. I have a web browser thank you
Electron apps should be taken out back and shot
Agreed. So you wrote a shitty web page that breaks constantly, but you still wasn't me to download it as an "app" so you can track me better? No thanks.
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Well, and there's also just lots of webpages implemented as an SPA – Single-Page Application.
Which you might be able to register in your browser as a PWA – Progressive Web App.
And which are just generally equally as interactive as an app, so good luck explaining the difference to folks who don't care about implementation specifics...
A webapp. Or the apps.
I am questioning whether it's true that Microsoft is attempting to implement more brand-based marketing, ecosystem lock-in, and a walled garden by rebranding Remote Desktop as a Windows App. Yes, I agree that everything now uses "app" in computer terminology; at least, it seems so. What if one day even the OS kernel is called an app too? Lol
I'm going to start referring to kernels as the os app. Just to fuck with people.
The inner app
The Appfather
Le app core
*chefs kiss
Then: w4r3z, appz.
Recently the right column says AI all the way down.
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