Microsoft quietly announced an expansion in the client support for RDP. So quietly, in fact, that it was buried in their press release about new and updated enterprise cloud solutions. Out of the entire press release about cloud, hybrid infrastructures, and other application updates, the RDP client update's only mention was:
"Further, with Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft is introducing the Microsoft Remote Desktop app, available for download in application stores later this month, to provide easy access to PCs and virtual desktops on a variety of devices and platforms, including Windows, Windows RT, iOS, OS X and Android."
Don't let that brevity fool you. This is a major step forward for Microsoft in the embrace of clients devices that do not naively run a Microsoft OS. Users on a variety of devices will be able to leverage a native Microsoft client to access their PCs (Professional versions only via RD Gateway), personal and pooled virtual desktops, shared sessions (RDSH) and RemoteApp sessions.
What does this mean for companies that have developed clients for the non-Microsoft devices? Not too much really. Maybe now they wont have to spend development cycles on the base client connection software and spend them on furthering other enhancements to the RDS solution stack.
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