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
Let me start a team for my team in Teams.
You can probably add “website” to the list.
Hm, this one intrigues me: what is commonly referred to as a website, without actually being a website?
I think they meant all of the apps that are just a website with a wrapper.
This infuriates me to no end. I have a web browser thank you
Electron apps should be taken out back and shot
Agreed. So you wrote a shitty web page that breaks constantly, but you still wasn’t me to download it as an “app” so you can track me better? No thanks.
Well, and there’s also just lots of webpages implemented as an SPA – Single-Page Application.
Which you might be able to register in your browser as a PWA – Progressive Web App.
And which are just generally equally as interactive as an app, so good luck explaining the difference to folks who don’t care about implementation specifics…
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.
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.
They could have named it Window window but that might have been too descriptive
Even if they renamed it to “Now You Too Can Have Magical Long Fingers and Vision” it would be somewhat descriptive of what it does.
Like how many people were involved in this decision? Let’s just call it “computer program”.
Marketing really has just ran away with everything. I wonder what they’ll rename the console as
Yep - ‘open with m365 copilot’ has such a ring to it. Why they threw out their decades recognisable office branding is beyond me
The App Box?
Worse than Twitter to X? At least windows app is loosely related to the original overall branding
The problem is that everything that runs on windows is a windows app.
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”.
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.
everyone knows viruses are allergic to apps
Ill bet anything they laughed about that in the breakroom
*chefs kiss
Then: w4r3z, appz.
Recently the right column says AI all the way down.
mstsc?
Not sure if this fits this comm, but I hate that the act of buying a phone plan and inseting a sim card is now referred to as “activation”.
“Activation” is the iPhone forced internet-setup thing, not the fact that you use wifi-only instead of cellular. 🤦♂️
Activating your SIM card is the best term.
You understand that SIM cards aren’t actually active until they’re connected to the network for the first time, right?
Correct. But SIM =/= Phone
You have heard of the concept of using your phone as a Wifi-Only Device, right?
Why are you buying a phone plan if you’re not using the mobile network?
No, I mean the context is, when you buy a phone from Best Buy, the sales person uses deceptive language to frame it as if your phone will not function unless you purchase a plan by asking “Would you like to activate your phone right now”, implying its locked and can’t even be used for Google Voice/VOIP calls, and as a multi-function tool (GPS, Camera, Notes, E-Reader, Audio Recorder, etc…).
Deceptive Corporatist language.
Aha, okay, much clearer what you meant now. Yeah, they surely get a kickback for each new subscription.
I thought it was activation before the iPhone existed
Activation fees certainly did.
Perhaps it isn’t exactly a new term, but I hate that term regardless. A smartphone can do many things without a cellular connection, a cell plan is not an “activation” but a feature upgrade.
You’re not even right. You are genuinely activating the SIM card and anyone around you paraphrasing to “activating a phone” is also correct, because nobody cares what other meaning you personally wish to ascribe to the task.
