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    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.

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            Were they? Or did the Grandmas SEIZE CONTROL and are implementing changes in a self-fulfilling prophecy‽‽

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              Grandmas are an insidious threat, your sister, your mother or even your own wife could be a grandma sleeper agent!

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        If you think this is bad, then you haven’t tried navigating the MS academic offerings. Over the last 10 or so years, I think it’s been called “dreamspark”, “imagine”, “MSDN Academic Alliance” (I liked this one, it actually made sense), “MSDN AA”, and now “Azure Dev Tools for Teaching” or “adt4t” when talking with support.

        rant mode ON

        Everytime the name is changed, it seems something else changes (OK it’s a new product) and the way to access installers and activate it differs. I just want to teach, but every couple of years I have to spend days trying to figure out how to get my iso’s and how to renew the subscription. A couple of years ago, and mind you this was after I had had an active academic relationship with Microsoft for 8 years, and my predecessor even longer than that before me, we had to submit invoices proving that the school owned the domainname for our emails and website, as well as a letter from the ministry of education that we were licensed to teach this course.

        The support staff is very professional and helpful, and we’ve always been able to resolve renewal issues. But each year we have to go through the process of getting through a maze of support pages linking to chatbots, to find the correct form to contact support. I think the link to support form had the text “Beware of the leopard”.

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        18 days ago

        They didn’t rename just the in-browser version, they renamed “Office.com, the Office mobile app, and the Office app for Windows”

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          Fully offline “proplus” is still office and fortunately that’s the only one I had to deal with since this change, so I’m not 100% familiar with their newer offerings

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      18 days ago

      At least they didn’t cancel it and make two new programs that each do 70% of what it did. Looking at you, Google.

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      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.

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      It’s as confusing as those adware and spyware ridden one-purpose tools from no-name Chinese developers.

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      I use RDP app today to log on to my Pc remotely by using vpn to my home network. It looks like they are adding bloat for services that I have zero interest in. Or maybe they are adding authentication services so the vpn wouldn’t be necessary.

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    Yo dawg, I heard you like Windows, so we put Windows in your Windows so you can use Windows while you use Windows

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    The only possible way Microsoft can be this bad at naming things is if they are actively doing it on purpose.

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    And I thought developers were bad at naming.

    The Microsoft school of naming things is really showing their ways

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    Is that kind of like how I talk to my team on the team’s app and send files and messages to them in the team in the teams app?

    They seriously need a new marketing group.

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      It’s like how they made the Xbox, then the Xbox one, then the Xbox one X, then the Xbox series X. (Yeah there were other options between/simultaneous, but this sequence is a nice clean illustration.)

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        Not to mention the Xbox Box, and the shipping cintainer full of 'em, the Xbox Box Box

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        I mean, it’s internally consistent with the inbetween too, for the first three:

        They went Xbox, did a 360 to face the same direction, and re-released the Xbox 1

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            Yup. Could’ve been a future where they went from Xbox 360 to Xbox 720 to Xbox 1080 and so on. They probably got scared that some of the audience would have thought that the Xbox 720 would only do 720p, then crapped the bed.

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      Teams in Teams is the naming I hate the most. Should have called them communities to match Viva Engage (Yammer) or just groups.

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      They literally ran out of ideas, like, 20 years ago?

      They’ve just been trying to say random-ass shit to justify their marketing budget since then.

      Windows basically stopped around 7 and mostly went backwards, and when is the last time you thought about the version of office you use? Do you even use office, or can you get by with google docs?

      OneDrive is by far more of a pain in the ass than anything else, nobody ever WANTS to use it, they mostly get hijacked by it early on and try to ignore it like a masturbating hobo on a subway car.

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    Classic Microsoft, muddying the waters of something that was clearly defined in its role and name

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      Their only product is that more programs run in windowd and people love the interface even though they keep fucking with it.

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        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).

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    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.