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.
Is this year of the Linux Desktop?
I really feel like Microsoft is on a quest to make windows as non user friendly as possible. Everything is hidden behind menus, the search function barely works, the taskbar can’t be moved, they’re constantly changing program names and can’t forget cramming a useless chat bot into the os again. It’s just a never ending stream of choices that make literally no sense from the perspective of the end user.
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
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/
Thank you so much for posting this. I already liked Ed’s work but this one was a cut above and it’s going to be marinating in my head for the foreseeable future.
Next in line, I guess they can call it just “App”.
Saw this yesterday which is relevant
Is that Steve Jobs with a Butthead mouth? Beautiful.
It definitely made me think of Jobs when I saw it. Not sure about the mouth part, but if thats what you see, its probably what was intended.
Makes sense, the CEO was just saying the other day that 30% of their code was written by AI
On the phone (well, teams call): “Just open the windows app…”
Opens notepad.exe
This… this one?
starts car
how about now?
MS hasnt improved for the user in about 20 years, not a surprise.
Hey that’s not fair, they recently added tabs to their file explore. I mean sure it has a shared history, so if you open a new tab and navigate, then return to the previous tab back takes to you their useless ‘home screen’, but still, there are tabs kinda!
I mean sure it has a shared history
Wait, you serious?
no, that’s… just not how I remember it. the tabs worked well except you couldn’t tear them (drag 'n drop them into another file explorer window) and i wasn’t able to make it open new file explorer windows as tabs in my time
Good luck even opening it without signing in to a Microsoft account.
“Fuck you, sign in.” -Microsoft
When it’s all the same you can ask for it by name.
Office365 -> Copiot365
It has already been renamed to Microsoft365.
You’d think a company that runs a search engine would understand SEO…
Anti-SEO pushes you to use AI to get help instead
They don’t want you searching it. They want you to pay them to fix it. With Ai presumably
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?
Can you run sfc /scannow? Post the entire contents of your event log. Okay, now that you have done this I will proceed to not reply to this thread anymore.
Have you tried SFC /scannow, dism repair, or factory reset?
These answers to a question why the task bar can’t be moved to the side anymore.
I HAD JUST FORGOTTEN I LIKE MY TASKBARS ON THE SIDE NOW I’M GONNA REMEMBER AGAIN AAAAAAAA
Yes, but I feel that’s strategic to make us feel we need AI to do the work for us.
But if you can’t google a solution to a problem there is no problem.
There’s a reason why I never use Bing
Can’t be worse than using the letter “x”.
try googling “cannot connect to windows app” instead of “cannot connect to windows remote desktop”
RDP, until they change the name of the protocol. I don’t think that search term is corrupted yet.
Not to be confused with windows apps, the branded name for UWP apps.
UWP has been deprecated for some time now. https://www.thurrott.com/dev/258377/microsoft-officially-deprecates-uwp
as it pushes the desktop-focused Windows App SDK (formerly called Project Reunion) and WinUI 3 as the future of Windows application development.
I didn’t know there was a distinction between these and UWP. In any case, I’m pretty sure that these are also called windows apps.
WinUI apps are packaged in a similar fashion to traditional applications. I can deploy an exe or MSI installer, UWP required msix (store). WinUI is a framework for the more modern user interface in Windows 10/11, replacing WinForms and WPF.
Organizations never adopted the store model so it was scrapped for the most part.
I was on about the Windows App SDK part (unless I’m wrong about that too), but I included the rest of the line.
