Microsoft is ending assist of its Distant Desktop app for Home windows on Could twenty seventh. For those who use the Distant Desktop app to connect with Home windows 365, Azure Digital Desktop, or Microsoft Dev Field machines then you definitely’ll must transition to the Home windows app as a substitute.
The brand new Home windows app, which launched in September, consists of multimonitor assist, dynamic show resolutions, and easy accessibility to cloud PCs and digital desktops. Microsoft says “connections to Home windows 365, Azure Digital Desktop, and Microsoft Dev Field by way of the Distant Desktop app from the Microsoft Retailer shall be blocked after Could twenty seventh, 2025.”
The prevailing Distant Desktop app is to not be confused with Microsoft’s Distant Desktop Connection app that has shipped inside Home windows for greater than 20 years. This app will live on in Home windows 11 after Could twenty seventh, and Microsoft says it will probably nonetheless be used to connect with machines till the Distant Desktop Protocol (RDP) is supported within the Home windows app.
The point out of RDP assist might imply Microsoft will finally assist private accounts in its Home windows app. You’ll be able to solely at present use the Home windows app if in case you have a piece or college Microsoft account, regardless of Microsoft’s long-term ambition of transferring Home windows absolutely to the cloud to “allow improved AI-powered companies and full roaming of individuals’s digital expertise.”
