Remote Desktop 8

Microsoft Corporation

About this app

Use the Microsoft Remote Desktop app to connect to a remote PC or virtual apps and desktops made available by your admin. With Microsoft Remote Desktop, you can be productive no matter where you are.


Getting Started
+ Learn how to use Microsoft Remote Desktop at https://aka.ms/rdanddocs.
+ Learn about our other Remote Desktop clients at https://aka.ms/rdclients.
+ Submit feedback at https://aka.ms/rdandfbk.


Features
+ Access remote PCs running Windows Professional or Enterprise and Windows Server
+ Access remote resources published by your IT admin
+ Connect remotely through a Remote Desktop Gateway
+ Rich multi-touch experience supporting Windows gestures
+ Secure connection to your data and applications
+ Simple management of your connections from the Connection Center
+ High-quality video and audio streaming


Permissions
This app requires certain permissions to use features in the app. These are enumerated below.


Optional access
[Storage]: access authority is required to access local drives and documents from the Remote Desktop session when the Redirect local storage feature is enabled.

Ratings and reviews

Works great, free, secure and built-in to Windows 10. Just turned on the remote desktop setting in Windows and was able to use this for everything I needed. Minus one star for being a little quirk regarding using scrollbars on the far left while trying to use the in-app keyboard. The screen seems to cut off the margins when the keyboard is open.

Using this app with my Pixelbook Go. Very simple and, for the most part, works well to access my work station from home. Some issues I'm running into are using quick keys within the window, Shift sticks, Copy/Paste options are hit and miss when using them in Excel, and no way to use a dual monitor view through the window. Fix those issues, and I would say you have the best on the market.

The app has a great deal of potential but the right shift bug (which has gone unfixed for years now) is show-stopping. It makes it somewhere between ackward and unusable to type on physical keyboards. You essentially have to train yourself to only use the left shift key. There is another version on the Play Store, also by Microsoft, simply called "Remote Desktop" that has this issue fixed and also does not have the copy-n-paste issue. I'd suggest everyone use that app instead.

What's new

- Fixed issue where images appear as characters
- Added pop-up to inform users that this application is no longer supported by Microsoft