Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement

This is clickbait. They will remove the Remote Desktop app from the Microsoft Store. They are not removing Remote Desktop Connection (mstsc.exe), which is what most people think of when they hear "Remote Desktop".

How is Microsoft so consistently terrible at naming things? Is there an internal group who's sole job is to ensure names have conflicting meaning?

Just like we&#x27;ll love the Windows 11 taskbar.<p>Just like we&#x27;ll love not being able to uninstall Copilot.<p>Just like we&#x27;ll love being forced to create a Microsoft Account on install.

I have the impression that the entire concept of &quot;store&quot; as seen in Windows is going downhill. No enterprise is able to use it, and that&#x27;s the stronghold of Microsoft. Also generally less and less applications there, so giving up on this particular one is not even so surprising. After all you still have the &quot;normal&quot; Remote Desktop, and yes the 365 app which is the enterprisey one - expect it to grow all those missing limbs.

I have used the Windows Store version of Remote Desktop since it landed. I really liked it. When the news broke a few weeks ago they were going to deprecate it in favor of Windows App (tried, didn&#x27;t like), I decided I would create my own launcher since a large part of my job is automation with PowerShell. This won&#x27;t be for everyone, but if you live in Windows and need to connect to remote servers and you like Windows Terminal and PowerShell, you may find this to your liking.<p>Code free to use. Pasted here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;EGArXbFi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;EGArXbFi</a>

I gave up with all modern Remote desktop and switched back to vnc and its been working flawlessly. I use tailscale to make the vnc ports accessible to my private network and I&#x27;m able to just connect via tightvnc. Remote desktop was only ever complicated because you had to open ports and make your machines accesible online, and with tailscale solving that whole mess for me its as simple as connect to this ip and its done. Thats all the paid options ever took care for you, the core functionality hasnt been changed in forever, unless i guess you care about extreme low latency which products like parsec offer.

So which Remote Desktop are they talking about?<p>I use a &quot;Remote Desktop&quot; to connect to my headless windows box. It has even a Mac OS app.<p>Is that the remote desktop they&#x27;re talking about? Or some other that I didn&#x27;t know about.

That is quite a roundabout way to increase anydesk user count.

Rustdesk for the win!

In all fairness Remote Desktop wasn&#x27;t all that great, but yeah, here comes another Windows 11-coded shenanigan that I&#x27;m sure we&#x27;ll love.

I use Windows App at work and honestly it&#x27;s really good, a lot of QoL features, specially if you have to manage a lot of machines.

So, is there any way to connect to these machines using Linux now?

Nice, no sooner then Linux forcing Remote Desktop on us to the exclusion of Network Transparency, Microsoft is obsoleting it.<p>So, will Linux follow Microsoft and move to something else ? That seems to be what the Linux Foundation is good for.