Microsoft: Universal Binary Remote Desktop Connection On the Way
Microsoft: Universal Binary Remote Desktop Connection On the Way
by , 10:35 AM EDT, July 17th, 2007
Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection client has been a mainstay tool for Mac users that need to access Windows PCs from their computer, but performance on Intel-based Macs isn't all that great since the application was written for Apple's older PowerPC-based machines. That's about to change because Microsoft is preparing to release a Universal Binary version of RDC the last week of July.
The current version of RDC, version 1.0.3, will run on Intel-based Macs, but along with poor performance, it can't print documents from Windows applications to Mac printers -- a feature that does work on PowerPC-based Macs. It does, however, support accessing Windows desktops, copy and paste, and running Windows applications remotely from Apple's latest Macs.
Remote Desktop Connection is free, and available for download at the Microsoft Web site. Microsoft is tracking the status of the pending beta release on the Mac Mojo blog.
Observer Comments
Sorry - I meant to add this in my previous post. It /can/ print. I only need to print very, very rarely - but it can do it. I just printed a page from a Word document to an HP LaserJet 2200 to convince myself I wasn't misremembering.
(True, the driver appears to be a bit limited and you may not be able to use some of the fancier features of your modern printers, but that's not the same thing as not being able to print at all.)
QuoteGuest wrote:
Sorry - I meant to add this in my previous post. It /can/ print. I only need to print very, very rarely - but it can do it. I just printed a page from a Word document to an HP LaserJet 2200 to convince myself I wasn't misremembering.
(True, the driver appears to be a bit limited and you may not be able to use some of the fancier features of your modern printers, but that's not the same thing as not being able to print at all.)
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