arstechnica.com — The Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft has made good on its promise for an RDC update, and has issued a 2.0 beta today as a Universal Binary. As a bonus, the Mac BU has also released an update to the Office Open XML file format converter that has improved conversion of Word documents.
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dleifelohcsAug 1, 2007
This doesn't allow you to "drop files" to a machine, only remotely manage it.
michaelboltonAug 1, 2007
wow you are a smart one.
timuscaAug 1, 2007
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Closed AccountAug 1, 2007
Wow just took them oh 8 years to catch up to XP with this feature?And sorry I dont think it works with non leapord machines unless the client is installed on the non leopard machines.There are different flavors of VNC that could can throttle down to make the connection faster and its free. RDC is good because its getting remote screen calls and not having to transmit every graphic on the screen.
sjonesAug 1, 2007
If 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.
thexderAug 2, 2007
I hope it isn't as annoying as the Vista RDP client
ilgazAug 4, 2007
"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.
ilgazAug 4, 2007
You 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.