Microsoft launches a Windows app for iPhones, Macs, and Android devices

Microsoft is launching a Windows app contiguous for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, web browsers, Android devices, and adjacent Windows PCs. The Windows app is fundamentally a hub for streaming a transcript of Windows from a assortment of sources, including Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, Remote Desktop, and more.

This caller unified app has been successful testing for astir a year, and includes a customizable location screen, multi-monitor support, and USB redirection truthful you tin usage section devices similar webcams, retention devices, and printers arsenic if they were plugged straight into a unreality PC.

This Windows app is constricted to Microsoft enactment and schoolhouse accounts, arsenic it’s chiefly designed for existing users of Remote Desktop clients for Windows and different operating systems to determination to. Microsoft has had akin apps for connecting to PCs remotely successful Windows for decades, including the Remote Desktop Connection app that inactive ships arsenic portion of Windows 11. These apps, including the caller Windows one, are utile for connecting to enactment PCs from a idiosyncratic laptop oregon PC.

There are nary signs that Microsoft plans to enactment user accounts with its caller Windows app, though. Last year, it was revealed that Microsoft has a semipermanent extremity of moving Windows afloat to the cloud to “enable improved AI-powered services and afloat roaming of people’s integer experience.”

Windows users tin drawback the Windows app from the Microsoft Store. It’s besides disposable from Apple’s App Store for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. An Android mentation enters nationalist preview mode today.