When upgrading my work computer to Windows 8.1 last month, I was a bit horrified when I realized that the Remote Desktop app that was provided with Microsoft Office 2011 could no longer remote into my work computer.  This was bad as this was my main means of working remotely for the tasks that required me to be on a Windows machine.  A quick search out there revealed a new app from Microsoft in the iTunes store for a new Microsoft Remote Desktop. After downloading this and getting it installed I was easily able to remote into my work computer again and all was well.  And this app handles the multiple RDP sessions a little differently than the old app did.  While there’s some good and bad with it, overall I think it’s a much improved version and one I was happy to see made available.

There is also a matching version in the iTunes store for the iPad and iPhone/iPod touch as well.  They work very similar to the desktop version.
One of the best benefits this new version does other than support Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2, it also supports the .RDP files much better that are sometimes used to distribute remote connection sessions.  I recently took a virtual CCNA class which utilized an RDP session into the lab equipment.  I was able to successfully launch the RDP session thru the classes website and it launched as expected in the new client.  Kudos to Microsoft for helping to bring a little better app development to some of their lesser used Mac applications.