Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps

Microsoft introduced at the moment that it is releasing a new app called Windows App as an app for Home windows that permits customers to run Home windows and likewise Home windows apps (it is also coming to macOS, iOS, net browsers, and is in public preview for Android).

On most of these platforms, Windows App is a alternative for the Microsoft Distant Desktop app, which was used for connecting to a duplicate of Home windows operating on a distant laptop or server—for some customers and IT organizations, a comparatively easy solution to run Home windows software program on gadgets that are not operating Home windows or cannot run Home windows natively.

The brand new title, although probably complicated, makes an attempt to sum up the app’s objective: It is a unified solution to entry your personal Home windows PCs with Distant Desktop entry turned on, cloud-hosted Home windows 365 and Microsoft Dev Field programs, and particular person remotely hosted apps which have been provisioned by your work or faculty.

“This unified app serves as your safe gateway to hook up with Home windows throughout Home windows 365, Azure Digital Desktop, Distant Desktop, Distant Desktop Providers, Microsoft Dev Field, and extra,” reads the post from Microsoft’s Home windows 365 Senior Product Supervisor Hilary Braun.

Microsoft says that other than unifying a number of companies right into a single app, Home windows App’s enhancements embrace simpler account switching, higher system administration for IT directors, assist for the version of Windows 365 for frontline workers, and assist for Microsoft’s “Relayed RDP Shortpath,” which might allow Distant Desktop on networks that usually would not permit it.

On macOS, iOS, and Android, the Home windows App is an entire alternative for the Distant Desktop Connection app—in case you have Distant Desktop put in, an replace will change it to the Home windows App. On Home windows, the Distant Desktop Connection stays out there, and Home windows App is barely used for Microsoft’s different companies; it additionally requires some type of account sign-in on Home windows, whereas it really works and not using a consumer account on different platforms.

For connections to your personal Distant Desktop-equipped PCs, Home windows App has many of the similar options and necessities because the Distant Desktop Connection app did earlier than, together with assist for a number of screens, system redirection for gadgets like webcams and audio enter/output, and dynamic decision assist (in order that your Home windows desktop resizes as you resize the app window).