Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2, Beta 3

Remember a few days ago we reported that the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client beta had expired, making users deal with an annoying, 'Why don't you download the new version' screen when no new version was available? Yeah, that was no fun. Luckily, the Mac BU has recently released Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2 Beta 3. The biggest improvement in this new beta is that it doesn't expire, so users who need to connect to Windows boxes from OS X won't be left in the cold as the actual ship date slips later and later.

Also new in the Beta 3 are full help files (which are localized in a few languages) as well as support for non-English keyboards.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

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Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=667…

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Brian

The new Cord beta is 1.743 million times better than RDCC which continues to behave like a nine year old girl...

April 18 2008 at 6:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Hamish

Does Cord do remote printing i.e. print to my local printer?
Previous versions didn't.

April 15 2008 at 11:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rynoman

CoRD rocks. I tried M$ RDC to connect to a Windoze network, and it couldn't handle the program I needed to run from the remote computer b/c of some resolution size issues. Tried CoRD on a whim and haven't looked back.

April 15 2008 at 10:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Able-X

When my beta expired, asktheadmin.com pointed us all to CoRD, and it works FAR better than MS's client ever did on Mac. Count me among the people who don't care what MS releases anymore.

April 15 2008 at 5:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jfolger

I vote CoRD too. Microsoft can take their expiring betas and lack of Mac attention and SHOVE IT!!!! Woohooo!!!!

But really, CoRD works fine.

April 15 2008 at 3:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

potato

If you don't mind going through the command line, rdesktop is a full-featured client also, free and open source. Sorry MS, I've switched and not switching back.

April 15 2008 at 3:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

richard

CoRD doesn't work well with Vista, don't think it fully supports RDP v6.0. The MS RDP Client however, does (as much as it pains me to say it).

April 15 2008 at 2:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gar

The link to download in this the article just sat and the download wouldn't kick off. I had better luck with: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx

April 15 2008 at 2:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

QuakerProf

Any thoughts on Cord vs. LogMeIn (free version)?

I currently use LogMeIn to remotely access a mixed set of computers- an aluminum iMac at work, my mother's PC desktop, my wife's PC desktop at her work, and my mother's PC laptop. I can access any of these from either my MacBook Pro laptop or any other PC or Mac.

However, it's a bit resource intensive. I've never used Cord.

April 15 2008 at 2:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bart

The interface of Cord is better yes, but the performance of Microsoft RDC is much much better.

For example, scrolling through a large document goes much faster in RDC

April 15 2008 at 2:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply