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 hook up with Home windows 365, Azure Digital Desktop, or Microsoft Dev Field machines then you definitely’ll should transition to the Home windows app as an alternative.
The brand new Home windows app, which launched in September, contains multimonitor assist, dynamic show resolutions, and quick access 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 will probably be blocked after Could twenty seventh, 2025.”
The present 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 might nonetheless be used to hook up with machines till the Distant Desktop Protocol (RDP) is supported within the Home windows app.
The point out of RDP assist may imply Microsoft will ultimately assist private accounts in its Home windows app. You’ll be able to solely at the moment 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 totally to the cloud to “allow improved AI-powered providers and full roaming of individuals’s digital expertise.”
