Edit: Sorry if the headline is misleading.

  • @[email protected]
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    14 hours ago

    As long as they keep the same protocol (and therefore third-party clients continue to work), I don’t care if they replace the current first-party client with a new dumpster fire.

  • @Brkdncr
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    5220 hours ago

    Title misleading.

    The MS store app is being replaced with a different store app.

    Remote Desktop isn’t going away.

    • isaacd
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      12 hours ago

      The Microsoft store app that nobody uses? Oh god, anything but that

    • @[email protected]
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      1820 hours ago

      Thx for clarifying, I was actually alarmed.

      Lemmy is going to just reddit itself every once in a while, it seems.

        • @[email protected]
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          818 hours ago

          I’m not actually blaming the platform. It’s up to the participants, us, to make it substantial, true, and valuable.

  • @[email protected]
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    1420 hours ago

    You can guarantee the replacement will be worse in every way, that’s the microsoft playbook after all.

  • linkinkampf19 🖤🩶🤍💜🇺🇦
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    1220 hours ago

    Just did that at my workplace, and the Windows App (at least for MacOS), was just all around shittier. It removed all of the previously setup VMs and standalone desktops staff would remote into for certain programs not compatible in an Apple environment, and then it killed the shared folder connection between devices, so for a short while there, we had to use OneDrive as a “quick and dirty” workaround. Finally got it working, but it took the full removal of the Windows App, including digging into every Library folder to delete any straggler files. Oh and it also would forget the reconnected remote sessions we’d set up, so that every time you closed it, you’d need to recreate the remote session.

    Can you tell I am pissed? Least it was a one time sitch so far, but damn.

    • Brickfrog
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      319 hours ago

      Yeah I was just about to comment the same, that app has already been replaced in the Apple App Store at least for iPads and auto nuked the old configurations. Created a ton of confusion when people lost all their old remote settings and/or couldn’t even find the app on the work iPads.

      Just searching for it gets a bit silly since that new app is literally called Windows App. I’d be searching for “remote” something but nope, that’s not what it’s called anymore.

  • Optional
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    420 hours ago

    Using Windows, eh. Yeah that sucks.

  • @TK420
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    219 hours ago

    Bring back Terminal Services /s