Microsoft launches a Home windows app for iPhones, Macs, and Android gadgets

Microsoft is launching a Home windows app at the moment for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, net browsers, Android gadgets, and even Home windows PCs. The Home windows app is basically a hub for streaming a replica of Home windows from quite a lot of sources, together with Home windows 365, Azure Digital Desktop, Distant Desktop, and extra.

This new unified app has been in testing for practically a 12 months and features a customizable homescreen, multi-monitor help, and USB redirection so you should utilize native gadgets like webcams, storage gadgets, and printers as in the event that they had been plugged instantly in to a cloud PC.

This Home windows app is proscribed to Microsoft work and college accounts, because it’s primarily designed for current customers of Distant Desktop purchasers for Home windows and different working techniques to maneuver to. Microsoft has had comparable apps for connecting to PCs remotely in Home windows for many years, together with the Distant Desktop Connection app that also ships as a part of Home windows 11. These apps, together with the brand new Home windows one, are helpful for connecting to work PCs from a private laptop computer or PC.

There aren’t any indicators that Microsoft plans to help client accounts with its new Home windows app, although. Final 12 months, it was revealed that Microsoft has a long-term aim of transferring Home windows absolutely to the cloud to “allow improved AI-powered providers and full roaming of individuals’s digital expertise.”

Home windows customers can seize the Home windows app from the Microsoft Retailer. It’s additionally obtainable from Apple’s App Retailer for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. An Android model enters public preview mode at the moment.