The remote desktop application for Windows is (almost) dead; Long live the Windows application. Microsoft said On Monday, that his inherited distance office client, who has already been replaced on other platforms, will no longer be supported on Windows after May 27, 2025. But you are not losing any feature here. You can always take care of technical support for your parents using the integrated Windows functionality or the modern Windows application, which is in a way the simplest and most confused denomination agreement as the Microsoft marketing team could have gathered.
“From May 27, 2025, the Microsoft Store Windows Distant Office Application will no longer be supported or available to download and installation,” wrote Hilary Braun from Microsoft on his Windows It Pro blog. “Users must switch to the Windows application to ensure continuous access to Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop and Microsoft Dev Box.”
The company claims that Windows 365 connections, Azure Virtual Desktop and Microsoft Dev Box via the remote desktop application from the Microsoft Store will be blocked in the distant desktop application on the expiration date of the application on May 27. For all other users, it will continue to operate but will no longer be supported.
By increasing confusion, Windows has an integrated remote desktop connection application that will remain the only way to use Retocktop Protocol (RDP) connections after May 27. But Microsoft will eventually incorporate this into the Windows application.
As Thurrot.com Notes, Microsoft warned that he would eventually replace the office remotely with the Windows application when the namesake operating system application spear Last fall. The new application has even arrived as an update of the remote office customer on the Apple App Store.
As for, uh, in an interesting way Named Windows application, the company has probably chosen this brand because it wishes To move the windows more and more to the cloud. Its Windows 365 service, introduced in 2021, even allows you to broadcast a virtual version of the operating system from any device. Thus, call the unified application used to access the cloud and remote PCs “Windows application” may seem slightly Less bizarre from this angle.
However, a reddit thread Since the Windows application, the September launch has organized entertaining reactions from fans of the company. “Microsoft must collect all the personnel responsible for the name or fame of their products in the past 15 years and to draw them in the sun,” published U / Alignedhurdle. Meanwhile, u / shuddy_eye7866 took the opportunity to use the same Xzibit: “Yo Dawg, I heard you like Windows, so I took the Windows application and I put your windows so that you can Windows while you split.”
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