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New Windows Virtual Desktop Feature Will Finally Make the iPad Useful (mspoweruser.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the new-and-shiny dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MSPoweruser: Last year Microsoft released Windows Virtual Desktop, an Azure-based service that delivers a multi-user Windows 10 experience on any operating system. Now Scott Manchester, Group Manager for Microsoft's Remote Desktop Service, has shown off a new feature for the iOS version of the app which makes the client much more powerful on the iPad. Windows Virtual Desktop will soon support mice in the virtual environment. Unfortunately, only specific mice will be supported -- in the video the Swiftpoint GT and eventually Microsoft's own Bluetooth mice. The feature is said to becoming soon.

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  1. For anyone wondering why it's only specific mice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    iOS doesn't support mice at all, so there's no way for Microsoft to simply support generic Bluetooth mice. Instead, they have to connect to the mice using a non-standard Bluetooth profile to bypass the restrictions built-into iOS. But that requires the mice themselves to have support for the aforementioned non-standard profile.

  2. Jump by dissy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Jump Desktop, an RDP and VNC client, works with mice in the same way.
    Except it's done so for 8-ish years now instead of 'coming soon'