The top bit got me recently, I hadn’t needed to remote into my desktop in a while and searched “Remote” and “RDP” and found nothing. Eventually I found it was renamed to the windows app and finally logged in but was baffled as to why they would do that.

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago

From what I read Windows App does not support RDP and you need to use Remote Desktop Connection (not Remote Desktop App, which is a different thing)

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/windows-app-to-replace-remote-desktop-app-for-windows/4390893

Remote desktop users: Users connecting to remote desktops from the Remote Desktop app should use Remote Desktop Connection until support for this connection type is available in Windows App.

[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 7 points 15 hours ago

I use Remote Desktop it a lot, and was warned about the changing name beforehand. And yet when one day the old application disappeared from my dock, I had the same reaction. I thought company IT or a macOS update might’ve screwed me over.

I’m used to it now, but that was a strange day.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This is the dumbest rebranding ever. If I tried really hard to make it as dumb as possible, I'd still not be able to come up with such a horrendously bad idea.

[–] ooo@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago

Even if they renamed it to “Now You Too Can Have Magical Long Fingers and Vision” it would be somewhat descriptive of what it does.

[–] Pothetato@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Like how many people were involved in this decision? Let's just call it "computer program".

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 20 points 23 hours ago

They could have named it Window window but that might have been too descriptive

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Marketing really has just ran away with everything. I wonder what they'll rename the console as

[–] youngalfred@lemm.ee 16 points 23 hours ago

Yep - 'open with m365 copilot' has such a ring to it. Why they threw out their decades recognisable office branding is beyond me

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

The App Box?

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Worse than Twitter to X? At least windows app is loosely related to the original overall branding

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It would be more like renaming twitter to internet website, which yes, despite everything, is worse than X.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

internet.website is available to register but I checked a couple registrars and they all seem to have it as a premium domain that costs several thousand to register.

[–] Tenoteve@feddit.org 6 points 19 hours ago

The problem is that everything that runs on windows is a windows app.