Yo dawg, I heard you like Windows, so we put Windows in your Windows so you can use Windows while you use Windows
Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps
Submitted 4 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Takeshidude@lemmy.world 4 months ago
marlowe221@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The only possible way Microsoft can be this bad at naming things is if they are actively doing it on purpose.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
How can they expect regular people to remember what the Windows app does? It would seriously be better to pick a word at random than to overload the meaning of “Windows” again.
Here are some way better names right off the top of my head:
- Kablam!
- Telefenestra
- Portle
- Microsoft microdo
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Telefenestra
Is that where you defenestrate somebody remotely?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Marklar!
hogmomma@lemmy.world 4 months ago
style99@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I’m just here for the yo dawg memes.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And I thought developers were bad at naming.
The Microsoft school of naming things is really showing their ways
exanime@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Developers are usually not bad at naming. Marketing on the other hand…
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
For more, check out my blog devsArentBadAtNamingThings.blogspot.com.tar
DinosaurSr@programming.dev 4 months ago
AbstractAppEngineFactoryFacade would have been much better
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
MSN Live! Windows App Professional for Business NT
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 months ago
jaxiiruff@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
what the hell microsoft
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
Quexotic@infosec.pub 4 months ago
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.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It’s like how they made the Xbox, then the Xbox one, then the Xbox one X, then the Xbox one series X. (Yeah there were other options between/simultaneous, but this sequence is a nice clean illustration.)
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Not to mention the Xbox Box, and the shipping cintainer full of 'em, the Xbox Box Box
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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
OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Teams in Teams is the naming I hate the most. Should have called them communities to match Viva Engage (Yammer) or just groups.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 months ago
geography082@lemm.ee 4 months ago
These guys survive just from the license dependency of corporations
LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Their only product is that more programs run in windowd and people love the interface even though they keep fixing with it.
toynbee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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).
rocci@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Classic Microsoft, muddying the waters of something that was clearly defined in its role and name
mal3oon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Very Aladeen of them!
xcjs@programming.dev 4 months ago
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.
Mad_Punda@feddit.org 4 months ago
This will be really easy to google for.
/s
cjriebe@lemmy.riebe.cloud 4 months ago
- Xzibit enters the chat *
MrSoup@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Upvoted for title.
ScrotusMaximus@lemm.ee 4 months ago
This sounds like an Onion article headline
fubo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
In the future, all Windows apps will be part of Windows App.
philo@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Reading is fundamental 😘
It’s not a Windows app, it’s an app for macOS, IOS, and Android.
infeeeee@lemm.ee 4 months ago
If you would read the article you would know that the title is perfectly correct, as currently it’s only available to Win, other platforms are just planned.
It’s an RDP client you can connect to pcs on the network or vms on azure
ryper@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
so, old Wine in a new bottle?
infeeeee@lemm.ee 4 months ago
No it’s an RDP (Remote desktop) client
philo@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Hopefully with no bugs.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Gold medal of tautology. At this point, people still using windows voluntarily don’t deserve any better. And IT departments having a choice but forcing windows on users deserve to be burned at the stake.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Fuck right off
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Do I sense some inner tensions due to frustration with using Microsoft’s sorry excuse for an OS?
Prethoryn@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ah yes, the always shitty, “I know everything because I am that business and person all the time and better than them.” Shit fucking comment.
At this point people who are like, “just use Linux” sound like, “just buy an iPhone.” The only difference is the Linux people don’t end up actually knowing shit about enterprise environments
I will get down voted because Lemmy is an Echo Chamber with people circle jerking their self justified opinions.
But seriously fuck off, dude. Anyone that literally says this doesn’t know shit about an actual environment.
Let me know when fucking Oracle’s shitty products work better on Linux boxes over Windows when their own fucking Linux products don’t work. I will go to the business I am a part of right now and let them know we should just hire you to make all of our financial and enterprise setup choices because you said so.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You have zero reading comprehension. Good job wasting your time on a pointless rant.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And IT departments having a choice but forcing windows on users deserve to be burned at the stake.
Not a small thing to rip all the wires out of the walls. Moving to an entirely new office-wide OS is a heavy lift.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
But they don’t have to make any OS “office-wide”. All they have to do is
- move from a centralized micro-management of every workstation to a scenario where users can be provided a prepared workstation, but may configure one themselves
- transition to a security policy that assumes every single workstation is insecure, and regulate the network traffic to allow only those protocols that are required for the business, protecting each machine from the next (this would prevent so many major security incidents where a single machine gets compromised and then the whole network is affected)
- provide central infrastructure as open protocols - IMAP (or POP3/SMTP), HTTPS, FTPS + file & printer sharing as desired
- enforce open formats within the enterprise
If necessary (assuming you have really irresponsible users), before authorizing users to set up their own machine, they can do a qualification check - or have the user’s line manager approve the “individual setup”.
This would enable power users productivity and even if you don’t change anything for the vast amount of users, it would pay off rapidly. If you can move regular workstations away from the bloatware that is Windows, you would boost the overall productivity immensely.
Specifically, what I am arguing against is:
- locking users into an eco-system for any kind of service (e.g. MS Exchange servers, MS Active Directory)
- outsourcing your IT competences to Microsoft (because let’s be real, that’s the actual reason IT departments go for Microsoft: corporate IT is outsourced as a service, this means lowest bidder, and the lowest bidder will happily take Microsoft’s offer to take care of any “real” issues and only provide a really, really dumb and helpless first level support)
- having tons of services listening on every workstation that no one ever needs (just open your windows control panel (while it’s still around) and check out all the running services, of which you could disable > 50% if Windows would let you, without impacting the operational state of your machine) and each one presenting a vulnerable interface to the network
qevlarr@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Did they just rein ent Norton Anywhere?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Will it serve me ads or do I need to find those myself?
cum_hoc@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is not confusing. AT ALL!
SDK@midwest.social 4 months ago
Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
The irony is that I do, in fact, like mudkips.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They’ve come full circle jerk.
fastfomo7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
It’s confusing. Though it was something sandboxed.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Much more interesting is the part about Relayed RDP Shortpath. With STUN and TURN and even a relay it sounds like this will enable some usecases similar to TeamViewer
fox2263@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I hope they’ve made it easier
x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Do they have some new techbro CEO?
moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Kamoulox
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Qyo dawg