Continuum Insight #2: How will you use Remote Desktop with Continuum for phone?

RDP is one of my most used ways of working from home. I don't have to worry about and of the firewall rules on a home PC to be able to work from home. A secure VPN and remote desktop are usually enough for me.

Extending RDP to Continuum is probably the quickest way to boost productivity with Continuum. In it's infancy, this will be the fall back app for people that need to get any and all sort of work done. I think the best areas to focus would be to ensure a minimally lag experience, and ability to multitask easy both within the RDP and in the phone.

One of the most irritating things about Remote Desktop is app switching since once you're in the RDP, alt-tab switches within your remote desktop. Maybe a special shortcut for RDP apps (Win+Alt+tab?). Anyways, the point is don't make it irritating to use with confusing keyboard shortcuts and too much lag.

If you can reduce the lag in RDP with a Wireless Continuum, then you're in business!

The main thing is manage my server (2012r2), though it'd also be nice for RemoteApp support so that I could simulate a real desktop experience.

As an IT Admin, I would use RDP to connect back to a virtual machine that has all my networking tools installed.  This would allow me to travel with nothing more than a phone and portable keyboard/mouse to on-site locations and if I have a need to check on something back at work, I could connect to any nearby monitor, fire up my VPN connection and then RDP to my virtual workstation that has all my networking tools.

I could also see this being used in training environments.  In most technical training classes you have to bring your own laptop to connect to a pre-existing virtual lab.  A few times I've gone and someone has of course brought a Mac and they are totally screwed because the lab uses something like Silverlight or an ActiveX plugin or something like that and then we are all scrambling to find a real PC for them.  If labs were designed to work with Continuum, it would be just yet another way to participate in a lab, all while carrying less or lighter gear (assuming the hosting training company has spare monitors, OR maybe they are actually fully setup with dock/monitor/keyboard/mouse and expect all students to bring a Win10 Mobile device to attach.)