Microsoft is ending support 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 you then’ll must transition to the Home windows app as a substitute.
The brand new Home windows app, which launched in September, consists of multimonitor help, 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 through 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 possibly 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 help might imply Microsoft will finally help private accounts in its Home windows app. You possibly can 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 moving Windows fully to the cloud to “allow improved AI-powered providers and full roaming of individuals’s digital expertise.”