Windows’ remote desktop applications have (almost) died; long live Windows applications. Microsoft said on Monday that its old remote desktop client has been replaced on other platforms and it will be supported on Windows after May 27, 2025. However, you won’t lose any functionality here. You can still support parents with built-in Windows features or modern Windows applications, both the easiest and most confusing naming conference for Microsoft’s marketing team.
“From May 27, 2025, the Windows Remote Desktop app for the Microsoft Store will no longer be supported or downloaded and installed,” Microsoft’s Hilary Braun wrote on its Windows IT Pro Blog. “The user must transition to Windows applications to ensure continued access to Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop and Microsoft Dev Box.”
Connecting to Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop and Microsoft Dev Box through the Microsoft Store’s Remote Desktop app will be blocked in the remote desktop app with the application’s expiration date of May 27, the company said. For all other users, for all other users, it will continue to work, but will no longer be supported.
Due to obfuscation, Windows has a built-in remote desktop connection application that will be the only way to connect using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) after May 27. But Microsoft will eventually merge it into Windows applications.
As thurrot.com Note, Microsoft warned that when the operating system’s application of the same name started last fall, it would eventually replace the remote desktop with Windows applications. The new app even arrives as an update to the remote desktop client on the Apple App Store.
As for, uh, What’s interesting is The company named Windows App, probably chose the brand because it hopes to move Windows more and more to the cloud. Its Windows 365 Service was launched in 2021 and can even stream virtual versions of OS from any device. So calling the unified application “Windows App” used to access cloud and remote PC seems to Slightly From this perspective, there are few strange things.
Still, the Reddit thread released by the Windows app in September has sparked some interesting reactions from company fans. “Microsoft needs to collect all the employees responsible for naming or renaming their products over the past 15 years and shoot them into the sun,” U/Alignedhurdle said. Meanwhile, u/shoddy_eye7866 seized a chance to use the xzibit meme: “Yo, I heard you like Windows, so I took the Windows app and put it in the window so that it can be on Windows when it’s Windows.”
