It’s not screen sharing which is part of the reason it’s so fast. Remote Desktop replaces the interactive Windows session on the target machine with the Remote Desktop client on the remote machine. This is for a different use case than the one Microsoft Remote Desktop supports. System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Screen Sharing.app But once you’ve experienced the performance difference between Microsoft Remote Desktop versus any VNC type of client, you’ll never want to use the latter unless you have no choice. I know that there are plenty of VNC flavored clients out there for accessing a remote Mac. With Remote Desktop Connection Client 2, you can quickly, simply and securely connect to Windows-based PCs to access Windows-based files, applications. Two things always come to mind when I see it mentioned:ġ) To use it you’ll need to have Windows 10 Pro on the remote machine, not Windows 10 Home.Ģ) Why doesn’t Apple offer a similar app for free to support the same capability for Mac targets? It’s $80 for an app that has a 2-star rating on the App Store. Bitvise SSH Client graphical SFTP file transfer single-click Remote Desktop tunneling auto-reconnecting capability dynamic port forwarding through an. I’ve always been impressed with the performance of Microsoft’s Remote Desktop client app and the underlying RDP protocol.
