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- 7of7, on 10/10/2007, -17/+42It takes a lot of grace for Microsoft to even develop for Mac users anymore given the amount of mindless hatred coming from the Mac community directed at Microsoft.
- timusca, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25Props for Microsoft making this FREE just as they have in the past.
I personally have no need for this, but there are a lot of reasons why you might. There were many times when I worked in IT that I needed to access a PC somewhere on campus or drop files to various computers simultaneously. I was using a Mac, so it was quite helpful. - RetlawST, on 10/10/2007, -7/+16Mindless? How about dropping VB in Office for the macintosh? How about MS trying to push digital formats that can't be played on any other platform? How about software, when it is actually released, that sucks up resources and makes your machine lag to hell?
I'm not claiming Apple products play perfectly with Windows, but MS has a ***** track record on OSX. - allywilson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Downloaded it and been testing it on and off all day so far. The UI is definitely better. Have a criticism though - if you specify in the prefs to go full-screen (and you have a widescreen mac like me) it looks excellent. If however you start the session (in say 800x600) then decide to go full-screen it won't switch to the widescreen aspect ration. Which kinda blows - but nevertheles it's a beta.
- mindsnare, on 10/10/2007, -5/+14You're nothing more than a ***** twit. It's an application for chrissakes, and in my line of work, incredibly useful.
- ntulip, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8why won't you just link directly to the download?
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/MISC/RDC2.0_Public_Beta_download.xml&secid=80&ssid=11&flgnosysreq=True - K3ITHK, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11Why won't the release office 2008 beta to the public. That is what I am really looking for.
- zero_bit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7And to think I had completely lost hope.
- whisperedlie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6If I understand you correctly, all versions do this and have always done so. The desktop is always at the resolution you initiated your RDP session with.
- ttfadia, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Yeah, CoRD has really improved in recent versions. I remember it was dugg a while ago when it was quite young, so give it another shot if you haven't tried it recently.
- miniboss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5It's a shame so many people judge programs by who makes it rather than what it does. This is a free alternative yet still people complain while Apple only offers a $300 corporate version (yes, i know Leopard will have a solution but Leopard isn't here yet)
- pyrates, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4No. If I set the resolution to 800x600 and hit the maximize button, it doesn't fill the screen. It just maximizes itself to the max resolution you start out with, which is 800x600. This is not a bug, it's a feature in the truest of words here.
- thirteenva, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It claims to allow for multiple sessions at one time, but I don't see any way of doing this. Has anyone got that feature working?
- sabor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I use CoRD on daily basis to control around 8 machines at a time. Cord's features are amazing, I won't question that, but what MS's RDC offers and beats the crap out of CoRD is stability. Cord crashes on me about 10 times a day. Furthermore, I've had Cord take about 1 minute to connect to a Win2K3 machine on a closed network and RDC takes 2 seconds.
I am very grateful MS has finally released a unibin of RDC, it was long overdue! - dleifelohcs, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Neither RD2 or CoRD work on Leopard. Back to rdesktop for me
- jb3designs, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4The only way to get it to work is to double click on a connection file. For some reason going to "File" and "Open" won't open multiple connections.
- aten, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4http://cord.sourceforge.net/
- dleifelohcs, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3robojerk: good example, thanks for that.
- Stecchino, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Works great. Works fast. Free. Been using it all evening. Props to Microsoft.
- sjones, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2If you go into the new Mac RD client's preferences, there's a "Drives" section where you can make a mac disk/folder/etc. available in the windows environment, like you can with the Windows RDC. It didn't work when I was testing it out, but apparently it's going to be an option.
- bakshi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Why digg this down? Terminals is an open source VRC supported by the Microsoft Codeplex website/wiki. I never even heard of it until this guy mentioned it on this thread. It looks pretty useful, even though I'm not an IT.
Look at the screenshots:
http://www.codeplex.com/Terminals/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Screen%20shots&referringTitle=Home - ltworek, on 10/10/2007, -7/+9CoRD is still way better with it's tabbed remote desktops and all, not sure why anyone would ever need this.
- dleifelohcs, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Unless you use RDP on a Windows machine, connecting TO a Windows machine. Then you can change resolutions on the fly
- dleifelohcs, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3If you get Leopard it comes with "Screen Sharing" for free. It even works with non-Leopard machines. Way more responsive than VNC.
There's also Apple Remote Desktop. That's not free, but it's worth every penny if you manage multiple Macs remotely. - piwy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1MacOs can't pay wmv and wma without flipformac. And then still it's a bitch. not sure how it works on the linux side. But yah, while mentioned non playability might be Apple not wanting to license wmv/a, MS pushed formats are not exactly free for all when it comes to playability.
- ilgaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You mean Apple should give up Industry standard and open VNC protocol for some proprietary protocol just to have speed?
You guys are supposed to be Apple users and fans/developers but you don't understand how Apple works. If a single bit changes, you will be prisoned in either commercial Apple tools or some reverse engineered stuff breaking 100 patents. I rather use a "Slow" but standard connection rather than begging some company to fix bugs or support my device.
You should be thankful that they use an open standard. - ilgaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Leopard solution isn't free, nobody gets leopard "free" legally, Leopard is a $140 operating system package.
Just in case people justify some bugs by thinking it is free. No, it is not free, Chicken Of VNC is free and open source. - michaelbolton, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4wow you are a smart one.
- shitton, on 10/10/2007, -7/+8Did anyone else notice that the mounted image size is 1024MB, while the actual download is just 4MB (the .pkg is only 12.1MB)? Makes me wonder if anyone at MS knows how to make a .dmg...
Correct me if I'm wrong. - ilgaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Which unspoken cult rule Vitriol break by suggesting a free, open source and clean OS X application?
You people are really sick you know? You validate this site shouldn't get any "non iphone" news or comments by acting like that. You validate those Dell trolls. - muller, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I may be missing something, but it seems to have lost the ability to create shortcuts to machines. Considering how many I remote into at work every day, this is not good...
- Weebs43, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I actually prefer Office 2004 for Mac OS X than I do on Windows. Maybe it's just me I guess
- bIuebonics, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3how about dropping vb in office for macs? did i just hear that string of words put together in disdain for microsoft? seriously, please tell me that's an unchanging hallucination that i'm witnessing in that comment.
- Stecchino, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I tried CoRD tonight as well. Sweet little app. It's still great that Microsoft is making their own client now. It's ALWAYS nice to have an alternative.
- blackrich, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I agree with whisperdlie and pyrates, I have NEVER been able to change resolutions on the fly in any version of the RDP client....
- ilgaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Every penny" you speak about is 30.000 pennies, a legal copy of Apple remote desktop is $300.
It is not worth every penny for a casual remote desktop user having less than 3 macs. - richardtallent, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Now, if only someone will come up with an RDP *server* for OS X. The VNC-based alternatives (including Apple's own tools) require far too much bandwidth compared to RDP, and that really matters when you are trying to control a Mac with a high-resolution display over a cable modem connection.
- allywilson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No, I disagree. I agree with dleifelohcs. If you start a session 800x600 on a windows machine then maximise it - it will go to 1024x768 (or whatever). On this Beta it just expands the 800x600 to fill the screen as best it can.
- yi_shiang, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1doesn't seems to remember my password
- ilgaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1because some of us are interested in MS'es continued support to Mac and the news/reviews associated with it rather than getting the actual program and installing it. This is a "news" site, not a "download" site.
- ilgaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No kidding, it needs huge patience. They opened up their blog with completely uncensored comments and every announcement there gets flooded with horribly off topic "M$" whining junk comments.
- ilgaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I bet MSFT will publicly apologise because it didn't work on an unreleased system which is possibly pirated since "It doesn't work" on a public site is a serious breach of NDA associated with Apple pre-release stuff. No pro developer would do that mistake.
- ilgaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1There isn't still free "Apple remote desktop" or a VNC client made by Apple available freely to end users. I don't speak about corporate features, a basic VNC client made by Apple doesn't exist.
Chicken of VNC is great (Thanks to Jason Harris and friends) but it is really a loss on Apple's credibility especially for IT admins. - anchorboi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Good to see Microsoft is still taking care of Mac users, however I couldn't be happier with CoRD. UB, fast, free & never had any problems with it.
http://cord.sourceforge.net/ - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Tell me about it, I serve almost 20 desktops with terminal server over a single business class cable modem. When I was building this setup, I tried VNC, but it is just to fat and slow.
- dleifelohcs, on 10/10/2007, -5/+5It seems to break on Leopard. Launches, but as soon as I connect to a machine it crashes.
- SLeepdepD, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3Here's a plug for Terminals, in case you don't know of it--I use this EXCLUSIVELY:
http://www.codeplex.com/Terminals - dleifelohcs, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1This doesn't allow you to "drop files" to a machine, only remotely manage it.
- VitriolAndAngst, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3If you need something free for the Mac to control a Mac -- there is "Chicken of the VNC." Kind of slow with a firewall, but it works. Find it at; http://cotvnc.sourceforge.net
- timusca, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Yeah... nevermind. I was thinking of when I used Remote Desktop from Mac to Mac. In any case, it was still very helpful.
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