- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
And I thought developers were bad at naming.
The Microsoft school of naming things is really showing their ways
MSN Live! Windows App Professional for Business NT
Developers are usually not bad at naming. Marketing on the other hand…
For more, check out my blog devsArentBadAtNamingThings.blogspot.tar.7z.com
AbstractAppEngineFactoryFacade would have been much better
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Can’t believe they don’t have proofreaders at ars technicha. Reading is fundamental 😘
It’s not a Windows app, it’s an app for macOS, IOS, and Android.
If you would read the article you would know that the title is perfectly correct, as currently it’s only available to Win, other platforms are just planned.
It’s an RDP client you can connect to pcs on the network or vms on azure
so, old Wine in a new bottle?
No it’s an RDP (Remote desktop) client
Hopefully with no bugs.
yo dawg
Classic Microsoft, muddying the waters of something that was clearly defined in its role and name
Very Aladeen of them!
This is not confusing. AT ALL!
Do they have some new techbro CEO?
The Android version of the app still has the zoom/cursor offset bug when using a software keyboard from when they sunset RDP 8. That has been a severe usability bug for over three years now.
They’ve come full circle jerk.
Yo dawg, I heard you like Windows, so we put Windows in your Windows so you can use Windows while you use Windows
The irony is that I do, in fact, like mudkips.
Much more interesting is the part about Relayed RDP Shortpath. With STUN and TURN and even a relay it sounds like this will enable some usecases similar to TeamViewer
I’m just here for the yo dawg memes.
Did they just reinvent Norton PC Anywhere?
These guys survive just from the license dependency of corporations
Their only product is that more programs run in windowd and people love the interface even though they keep fixing with it.
I strongly dislike Windows - the only Windows device on my network is my wife’s work computer. However, my favorite desktop interface is the one Windows had in XP and 10. I even use Cinnamon because it’s the most similar experience (and shares a lot of the same key shortcuts I learned as a kid).