Windows App general availability coming soon

I have to be honest, I'm not a fan of the name change. It feels so generic and vague.

"hey you will need to install Windows App", "ok, which Windows App?" "Windows App!" "What do you mean, and who's on first?"

Do you guys at microsoft have internal competitions to come up with the worst product names or something?  How do you expect this to not be confusing?  I thought teams and skype naming was bad enough but this is way up there.

What was ever wrong with "Microsoft Remote Desktop"?  It says what it does - "Windows App" is going to be confused with Windows itself, apps that run on Windows, etc.

Try a google search for "Windows app" for troubleshooting purposes.  Jeeez

I am 100% certain that the name "Windows App" violates Microsoft branding guidelines - and for good reason. Please consider an alternative now so we don't all have to switch again in six months.

Please reconsider the name "Windows App." I work in IT support for a large organization that onboards hundreds of employees a year using AVD. Explaining what this is over the phone is going to be a nightmare. The application name should be easily distinguishable from the platform that it is running on, and in the case for Windows users, it is not.

Just registered to comment that the new 'Windows App' name is awful. Please reconsider this. I can just imagine having a support call with users: “Ok, boot into windows.  Close the open window.  Then open windows and click on the Windows App icon to open a new window“.

This seems as bad as Google's redefining the word 'Doc' to mean a word processing document.

"Windows App" is essentially un-searchable for support issues, as Jethro_Rose and others point out. For anyone in a support role, these kinds of generic, undifferentiated brand names are just maddening, like trying to search specifically for issues with teams in Teams without getting hits for Teams (and good luck if you are trying to find info on how to implement business teams in teams on Teams). For sanity's sake, please give it a differentiated name, like Lync vs. Link. 

Wow, that is absolutely genius.  Great job with the name guys.  That won't be confusing at all.  How did you come up with it? 

"Hey guys, Middle-man-Mike here, trying to justify his job by rethinking things for absolutely no good reason!  What I'm thinking this time is that the name Remote Desktop is just a little too on-the-nose.  We'd like to have something... i dunno, a little more... meta."

“Meta, yes, exactly, Mike,” Karen chimed in hesitantly, glancing around the room with wide eyes, “but maybe not…too meta?”

But it was too late. Mike was already off and running.

“Right! We don’t want to just say what the app does — that’s so 2008! We want people to feel the app, to wonder, ‘Is this an app? Is it just Windows? Is it the windows in my house, or maybe a window into my soul?’ That’s mystique, people!”

“Or… we could, you know, keep it practical?” ventured Doug from IT. “Maybe like ‘Remote Connector’ or ‘Windows Remote’—”

“Doug,” Mike interrupted, shaking his head in pity. “You just don’t get it. This is the Windows App. It’s bold, it’s sleek, it’s…vague. When they see ‘Windows App,’ they’ll think, ‘Wow, this app could do anything.’ And isn’t that what we want?” He grinned, crossing his arms like he’d just invented the wheel.

Karen leaned in, trying one last time. “But Mike, what about the support calls? ‘Windows App’ is, um, kind of…ambiguous?”

Mike laughed. “Exactly! Ambiguity creates mystery. Mystery creates interest. We’re not just rebranding, Karen. We’re redefining. Let them call IT and ask, ‘What is the Windows App?’ It’s free marketing!”

“Right,” Karen said, resigned. “It’s genius, Mike. Just like that ‘Something happened’ message.”

“Yes!” Mike beamed. “The classics, Karen. People loved that one!”

And with that, “Windows App” was locked in.

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macOS: Users on iOS and macOS will experience an in-place update of the Remote Desktop client to the new Windows App version. This update will provide the same modern UX

please don't be an electron app

please don't be an electron app

please don't be an electron app

I would've very much preferred a name like "Windows Connector App", which clearly conveys what the app actually does.

Other names like  "Windows Gateway App" or, although probably too long, "Windows Workspace Connector App" , would be acceptable too.

"Windows App" is simply too generic and means too many things, but hey, I guess Microsoft will rename the app a couple of times in the future.