Microsoft has confirmed that it will Eliminate support for your Application Remote Desktop from May 27 of 2025. Of course, that does not mean that the services to which they gave access will disappear, but that they will move to another tool.
Specifically, they will go to an application to which they have called Windows App, which they describe as a new unified access to remote connections, and that can already be downloaded normally from the Microsoft store.
Thus, to have remote access to Windows 365 OA Azure Virtual Desktop it will be necessary to change application, which will be available for various platforms and systems. According to the REDMOND support page of this new remote access application, Windows App will be available, in addition to Windows, also for macOS, as well as for Apple’s and IOS mobile device systems.
In addition, it will also work through web browsers. In the future it will expand its availability, since there are currently already Android test versions, chromeos and target Quest devices. It will serve, in addition to Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop and Microsoft Dev Box, remote desktop services and remote PC. Of course, remote desktop services will have certain limitations on Windows devices and web browsers.
From the company they advise users who need to have access to the remote desk desk app, which will be obsolete in a few weeks, to use the remote desktop connection function «Until the support for this type of connection is available on Windows App«, Which predicts certain problems and impediments, as well as limitations, in the transition between applications. Besides, Microsoft has published a list of problems that Windows App is currently, as well as other barriers and difficulties that, at the outset, users can find.
