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That’s not even close. Microsoft churns out incredibly awful names. The “Defender” family is probably the most egregious example today.

I’m sure the enterprise version will be Azure Windows 365 App for Business E3. But it won’t be compatible with one of the 4 hosted windows desktop solutions that Microsoft ships lol, but nobody will be sure of which one!

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Windows Defender I'm willing to overlook; it defends Windows which is at least slightly explanatory. Windows App gives no hint about its purpose at all. If I wanted to connect to another Windows machine and saw a Windows App entry in the start menu, I probably wouldn't think to try it.

"Windows App" is way worse. You won't be able to reliably find information about it

Worse than what?

Windows Defender? Defender for Endpoint? Microsoft 365 Defender? Defender for Office 365? Whatever the Defender that comes with the product formerly known as SCCM is called?

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