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

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.

Changing my previous review to a single star. The official Microsoft RDP app used to be the best of the free RDP clients for Android, but there is a critical bug that has remained unfixed for over a year. When using a physical keyboard - USB / Bluetooth / etc - the right shift key sticks. Unless you retrain yourself to only use the left shift key, doing any work is difficult and entering passwords is impossible. If you need a RDP client, then don't use the official Microsoft one, it will just frustrate you and lock your account out.

Works well, but I have a new phone with highly rounded display corners and thus I can't see the full remote screen (esp the Start menu!). Why can't we choose an option for a resolution SMALLER than our phone screen resolution? The only options are for resolutions that are bigger. And why can't we scale via pinch-to-zoom to smaller than 100% so I can actually see the full screen on my phone?

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