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So...yeah. Seems MS, in their endless wisdom has decided to rename their virtual desktop software, called before as "Remote Desktop" (and good luck trying to find issues with that that are not related to the old RDP tool MTSC.exe) to.... "Windows App". Perfect. Now everything will look like everything, and there's no way to ever try to search for help for it. Next in line, I guess they can call it just "App". I'm sure that will help everyone.

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[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 68 points 6 days ago

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

Saw this yesterday which is relevant

[-] Zink@programming.dev 17 points 6 days ago

Is that Steve Jobs with a Butthead mouth? Beautiful.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It definitely made me think of Jobs when I saw it. Not sure about the mouth part, but if thats what you see, its probably what was intended.

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 45 points 6 days ago

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/

[-] slappypantsgo@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

I remember Noam Chomsky talking about this a number of years ago. It’s true. We don’t want technocrats, but worthless dumbfucks are also quite scary.

[-] herzberd@midwest.social 6 points 6 days ago

Thank you so much for posting this. I already liked Ed's work but this one was a cut above and it's going to be marinating in my head for the foreseeable future.

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[-] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 days ago

This started a few months ago across the board. It's the dumbest realignment of their application stack ever ... With that being said, I think it's clear that the future of Microsoft is going to be them attempting to move the entire OS experience into the cloud no matter how misguided or unwarranted that approach may be.

Mainframe for the home user, with all files on their servers and, thus, controlled by them. That's always been their goal, but the tech just didn't exist until recently.

[-] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago

Ahh windows. How I don’t miss you.

[-] Opacity9850@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Had been windows 10 user since 2015 (no pc before that), installed linux mint a month ago and was surprised how smooth everything was!

Sorry windows but Im never coming back.

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 17 points 6 days ago

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

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Having worked on products that are renamed to something equally ambiguous, I'd say they are trying to make it more difficult to find because they are trying to redirect customer attention to other places, and are deliberately making it difficult to talk about or search for. Unfortunately this is a very successful strategy. It's also very user hostile, and product engineer hostile. My heart goes out to any engineers that work in this product.

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[-] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] pseudonaut@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

I don’t want my OS to innovate. I just want it to be reliable. I can say this for MS, I haven’t seen a blue or any other color screen of death for, God, a decade? I’m pretty happy with Windows these days.

[-] OmgItBurns@discuss.online 3 points 5 days ago

I've had the opposite happen since switching to Windows 11. Multiple BSODs a week on both machines. Super frustrating.

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[-] pappabosley@lemm.ee 23 points 6 days ago

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

[-] Talonflame@lemmy.cafe 7 points 5 days ago

I'm going to name a game I'm making "a game"

[-] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

could it be that i already lost the game?

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Impossible to pirate. Money printingachine

[-] polle@feddit.org 19 points 6 days ago
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[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

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

[-] Hobo@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Opens notepad.exe

This... this one?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

starts car

how about now?

[-] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 14 points 6 days ago

Is this year of the Linux Desktop?

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[-] carrion0409@lemm.ee 13 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] Reygle@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

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

"Fuck you, sign in." -Microsoft

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I don't use Microsoft....or apple

[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

Capitalism's innovative creativity on full display.

[-] plyth@feddit.org 5 points 6 days ago

So you need ChatGPT to get a helpful answer.

MS 1 : Google 0

[-] intheformbelow@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

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

[-] frozenpopsicle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

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

[-] UncleJosh@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

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

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 4 points 6 days ago
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