Re:Microsoft Launches Remote Desktop App for Android and iOS
by wlesieutre on Thursday October 17, 2013 @08:13PM
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That's not a limitation of the new apps, it's one of the differentiating features between versions of Windows. The big reasons to buy Windows Professional are for the disk encryption and RDP server.
Re:Microsoft Launches Remote Desktop App for Android and iOS
by alayne on Thursday October 17, 2013 @06:47PM
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It was always that way. Remote Desktop is probably used most by people connecting to work computers over VPN.
Re:Microsoft Launches Remote Desktop App for Android and iOS
by hresult on Thursday October 17, 2013 @07:43PM
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That's Microsoft all right. Remote desktop server is disabled on those SKUs for no apparent reason. One of reasons to hate Windows.
Re:Microsoft Launches Remote Desktop App for Android and iOS
by fletchowns on Thursday October 17, 2013 @08:06PM
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It's not for no apparent reason, and it's hardly a good reason to hate Windows. Got any more amazing insights you'd like to share with the group?
"You can connect to computers running Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, or Windows 7 Enterprise."
"You can't use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to computers running Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Basic, or Windows 7 Home Premium." http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/remote-desktop-c...
Aren't the vast majority of Windows licenses out there ones that you can't connect to as a host in RDP?