I was in a computer store a few years ago watching a young guy trying to sell a tablet to an older woman. He said "the good news about this is that it can't get viruses because it runs apps".

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 46 points 11 months ago

everyone knows viruses are allergic to apps

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ill bet anything they laughed about that in the breakroom

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 24 points 11 months ago

I'd bet they believed it themselves.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you assume that she will only install official apps, that they are sandboxed and Apple doesn't allow viruses in App Store apps, then that statement seems fine to me.

Every networked computer has some risk of getting a viris of course.

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[–] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 84 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 94 points 11 months 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.

[–] Pothetato@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

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

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 22 points 11 months ago

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

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 7 points 11 months ago

The App Box?

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 15 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months 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.

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months 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.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 77 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Let me start a team for my team in Teams.

[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does the team for your team have a theme in Teams yet?

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you don't know how to set up themes in Teams, you can ask Tim from the theme team on Teams.

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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can probably add “website” to the list.

[–] kaeurenne@lemmy.kadaikupi.site 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am questioning whether it's true that Microsoft is attempting to implement more brand-based marketing, ecosystem lock-in, and a walled garden by rebranding Remote Desktop as a Windows App. Yes, I agree that everything now uses "app" in computer terminology; at least, it seems so. What if one day even the OS kernel is called an app too? Lol

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 11 months ago

*chefs kiss

[–] TRAHR@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Then: w4r3z, appz.

[–] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Recently the right column says AI all the way down.

[–] lowleveldata@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

mstsc?

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