Capitalism's innovative creativity on full display.

Yep had this issue a while back now took a bunch of searching just to find it so crazy.

Are they doing this on purpose? Why would they even do something like that?

Yeah my dad's boss had this issue a couple weeks ago. His remote desktop app disappeared from his phone and he had no idea where. Figured out after looking for a whole day that they renamed it to this stupid bullshit.

Probably another case of too many bean counters (and marketing majors), and not enough software developers. Windows hasn't innovated in forever. Seems like they're the Walmart of operating systems, just cheaper and easier for most people.

So you need ChatGPT to get a helpful answer.

MS 1 : Google 0

It's been a while, i think, and yes, it was a pos move.

Ahh windows. How I don’t miss you.

i usually press win+r and type 'calc' or 'cmd'. they could make that more efficient by assigning binary numbers to everything.

Will it still be port 3389? I think that’s what it is but I’m too lazy to look it up.

Is this year of the Linux Desktop?

Ed Zitron wrote a blog post I've been thinking about, where he said that a lot of decisions are made by "business idiots" now. People that don't really use or understand the product, and don't really understand the users or their needs. It's an interesting read, even though the guy is rather verbose: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

Next in line, I guess they can call it just “App”.

Saw this yesterday which is relevant

I really feel like Microsoft is on a quest to make windows as non user friendly as possible. Everything is hidden behind menus, the search function barely works, the taskbar can't be moved, they're constantly changing program names and can't forget cramming a useless chat bot into the os again. It's just a never ending stream of choices that make literally no sense from the perspective of the end user.

I didn't believe it until i verified it. This shit is true. Wtf! https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/windows-app-to-replace-remote-desktop-app-for-windows/4390893

Oh, those sad, sad motherfuckers. My only concern is too many Linux Immigrants. Stay in your shitty corporate hell. It's not like there's any other option. /s

Makes sense, the CEO was just saying the other day that 30% of their code was written by AI

Ah yes, the "windows app" I remote into Linux on. That's like an ex naming a kid after you levels of crazy.

I haven't found Microsoft Documentation for anything since Word for Mac 5 on my Apple Centris 650 in 1992, and I only had that because it came in a printed book.

So this is on par with the Microsoft way: Let other people charge you for outdated help.

On the phone (well, teams call): "Just open the windows app…"

Good luck even opening it without signing in to a Microsoft account.

"Fuck you, sign in." -Microsoft

You'd think a company that runs a search engine would understand SEO...