• schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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    Lol, they’re just renaming Remote Desktop to Windows.

    So I can use Windows to connect to Windows, and run my Windows.

    Truly a moment of marketing brilliance.

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            Were they? Or did the Grandmas SEIZE CONTROL and are implementing changes in a self-fulfilling prophecy‽‽

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              Grandmas are an insidious threat, your sister, your mother or even your own wife could be a grandma sleeper agent!

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        If you think this is bad, then you haven’t tried navigating the MS academic offerings. Over the last 10 or so years, I think it’s been called “dreamspark”, “imagine”, “MSDN Academic Alliance” (I liked this one, it actually made sense), “MSDN AA”, and now “Azure Dev Tools for Teaching” or “adt4t” when talking with support.

        rant mode ON

        Everytime the name is changed, it seems something else changes (OK it’s a new product) and the way to access installers and activate it differs. I just want to teach, but every couple of years I have to spend days trying to figure out how to get my iso’s and how to renew the subscription. A couple of years ago, and mind you this was after I had had an active academic relationship with Microsoft for 8 years, and my predecessor even longer than that before me, we had to submit invoices proving that the school owned the domainname for our emails and website, as well as a letter from the ministry of education that we were licensed to teach this course.

        The support staff is very professional and helpful, and we’ve always been able to resolve renewal issues. But each year we have to go through the process of getting through a maze of support pages linking to chatbots, to find the correct form to contact support. I think the link to support form had the text “Beware of the leopard”.

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        They didn’t rename just the in-browser version, they renamed “Office.com, the Office mobile app, and the Office app for Windows”

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          Fully offline “proplus” is still office and fortunately that’s the only one I had to deal with since this change, so I’m not 100% familiar with their newer offerings

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      At least they didn’t cancel it and make two new programs that each do 70% of what it did. Looking at you, Google.

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      Only it comes standard with the multiyear bugs only just patched in remote desktop for windows, like an inability to remember where you monitors have always been.

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      It’s as confusing as those adware and spyware ridden one-purpose tools from no-name Chinese developers.

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      I use RDP app today to log on to my Pc remotely by using vpn to my home network. It looks like they are adding bloat for services that I have zero interest in. Or maybe they are adding authentication services so the vpn wouldn’t be necessary.