The Remote Desktop App For windows is (almost) dead; Windows app live. Microsoft Says It was Monday that its Legacy Remote Desktop Client, which was replaced with other platforms, would no longer be supported in Windows after May 27, 2025. But you will not lose any function here. You can still do tech support for your parents using the built-in functionality of Windows or the modern Windows app, which is both the simplest and most confusing Microsoft marketing name that can accumulate.
“Starting May 27, 2025, the remote desktop app for Windows from the Microsoft Store is no longer supported or available for downloading and installing,” Microsoft's Hilary Braun wrote on Windows It Pro Blog. “Users must move to the Windows app to ensure continuous access to Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop and Microsoft Dev Box.”
The company said the Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop and Microsoft Dev Box connections via the remote desktop app from the Microsoft Store will be locked in the remote desktop app on the date of the app expiry of May 27. For all other users, it will continue working but will not support.
Increasing the confusion, Windows has a built-in remote desktop connection app that will remain the only way to use the remote desktop Protocol (RDP) connections after May 27. But Microsoft will eventually incorporate that to the Windows app.
Number Thurrot.com Notes, Microsoft warned That will eventually replace the remote desktop with Windows app when the operating system name app launched Last fall. The new app arrives as an update to the Remote Desktop Client in Apple's App Store.
As for, uh, Noticeable Named Windows app, the company probably chose to bond because it Want To move windows growing in the cloud. Its Windows 365 service, introduced in 2021, even letting you Stream a virtual version of OS from any device. So, calling a single app used to access the cloud and remote PC “Windows app” seems to Partly Not very unique from that angle.
Still, a reddit thread From the launch of the September Windows app will hold some entertaining reactions from fans of the company. “Microsoft has to collect all staff responsible for naming or changing their products names in the last 15 years and shoot it during the day,” Posted by U/AlignedHurdle. Meanwhile.
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