{"id":53459,"date":"2013-10-18T11:05:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T09:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=53459"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:05:25","slug":"windows-remote-desktop-launched-for-ios-and-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/windows-remote-desktop-launched-for-ios-and-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Remote Desktop launched for iOS and Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has launched <a href=\"http:\/\/microsoft-remote-desktop.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Android<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/microsoft-remote-desktop.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>iOS<\/strong><\/a> versions of <strong>Remote Desktop<\/strong> alongside the release of <strong>Windows 8.1<\/strong>. The apps allow you to connect to your PC remotely. Remote Desktop is not a new thing, but this is the first time it has been offered to non-Windows devices.<\/p>\n<p>Using the new Windows 8 interface is much easier on a mobile device than earlier versions, although Remote Desktop will let you connect to older Windows PCs too, all the way back to XP.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft haven&#8217;t made much noise about Remote Desktop for iOS and Android. Its announcement was buried in a press release about cloud services earlier this month, and there hasn&#8217;t been any publicity for the actual release.<\/p>\n<p>Download Remote Desktop for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/microsoft-remote-desktop.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> <\/strong>and <a href=\"http:\/\/microsoft-remote-desktop.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>iOS<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about Windows 8.1<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/windows-8-1-out-now\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Windows 8.1 out now<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/new-windows-8-1-build-helps-users-discover-hidden-features-facebookflickr-integration-still-missing\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Windows 8.1 build helps users discover hidden features, Facebook and Flickr integration still missing<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/first-update-for-windows-8-1-preview-released\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>First update for Windows 8.1 Preview released<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/more-details-about-windows-8-1-update\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>More details about Windows 8.1 update<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has launched Android and iOS versions of Remote Desktop alongside the release of Windows 8.1. The apps allow you to connect to your PC remotely. Remote Desktop is not a new thing, but this is the first time it has been offered to non-Windows devices. Using the new Windows 8 interface is much easier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/windows-remote-desktop-launched-for-ios-and-android\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Remote Desktop launched for iOS and Android&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-53459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331969,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53459\/revisions\/331969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53459"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=53459"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=53459"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=53459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}