return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours agoMicrosoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows appsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1173arrow-down18
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minus-squareschizo@forum.uncomfortable.businesslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up91·5 hours agoLol, they’re just renaming Remote Desktop to Windows. So I can use Windows to connect to Windows, and run my Windows. Truly a moment of marketing brilliance.
minus-squareSeasm0ke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 hour agoOnly it comes standard with the multiyear bugs only just patched in remote desktop for windows, like an inability to remember where you monitors have always been.
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 hours agoAt least they didn’t cancel it and make two new programs that each do 70% of what it did. Looking at you, Google.
minus-squareinfeeeee@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·5 hours agoThey love to do this. 2 years ago they renamed Office (the online, browser based version) to Microsoft 365 https://www.computerworld.com/article/1614302/office-to-be-rebranded-microsoft-365.html They can present the “new” apps to shareholders
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·4 hours agoThis comes full circle with everyone’s grandma incessantly calling every piece of software on their computer “The Microsoft.”
minus-squareCypher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-22 hours agoThe grandmas were right the whole time!
minus-squarecm0002@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·24 minutes agoWere they? Or did the Grandmas SEIZE CONTROL and are implementing changes in a self-fulfilling prophecy‽‽
minus-squareCypher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 minute agoGrandmas are an insidious threat, your sister, your mother or even your own wife could be a grandma sleeper agent!
minus-squareByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 hours agoI currently open a window on my Windows to run a Linux
Lol, they’re just renaming Remote Desktop to Windows.
So I can use Windows to connect to Windows, and run my Windows.
Truly a moment of marketing brilliance.
Only it comes standard with the multiyear bugs only just patched in remote desktop for windows, like an inability to remember where you monitors have always been.
At least they didn’t cancel it and make two new programs that each do 70% of what it did. Looking at you, Google.
They love to do this. 2 years ago they renamed Office (the online, browser based version) to Microsoft 365 https://www.computerworld.com/article/1614302/office-to-be-rebranded-microsoft-365.html
They can present the “new” apps to shareholders
This comes full circle with everyone’s grandma incessantly calling every piece of software on their computer “The Microsoft.”
The grandmas were right the whole time!
Were they? Or did the Grandmas SEIZE CONTROL and are implementing changes in a self-fulfilling prophecy‽‽
Grandmas are an insidious threat, your sister, your mother or even your own wife could be a grandma sleeper agent!
I currently open a window on my Windows to run a Linux
And it runs in windows too!