Microsoft is testing remote access to the Family Tech Support Android app

It’s a problem that techies face every day: providing tech support for their family and friends around the holidays. Microsoft Hackathon winners believe they have a new twist: a smartphone remote-access app that can help family members.

Family tech supportIt is a proposal implementation and will be submitted for review at Microsoft and CEO Satya Nadella. (The link will take you to the team page, where more information is available. Nicole Birdy and her team beat more than 10,000 apps in Microsoft’s Hackathon, which included more than 68,000 employees. Microsoft said.

Microsoft already offers options for family members to support their friends and families with solutions such as Remote Desktop, a great PC solutionRemote Access allows trusted computers to access remote computers, control them, and resolve any issues. Remote Desktop requires that the computer in question be running Windows 10/11 Pro. The best third party solutions.) Berdy, along with her team, propose a solution to a smartphone. This is a totally different path than Microsoft’s.

However Microsoft killed its mobile platform, Windows 10 Mobile. Microsoft has a strong presence in Android with many versions of Office, Outlook, Bing and so forth. The Windows “Your Phone” app allows for extension. Remote control computer for Android smartphoneRemotely launch applications, interact with the screen, make phone calls, and send text messages. These same principles are likely to underlie Family Tech Support app. It can be used either via a PC-to mobile or direct mobile-tomobile experience.

Based on Rajeshwari Godbole’s Nuance Dragon Anywhere application developer, this is clearly a trend Microsoft is referring to. “Whenever I visited, I would set up a home screen for them with their favorite apps, but then they accidentally deleted the shortcut, they would call me thinking the app was gone and they broke it, or they held the phone with your finger on the volume button and it ended up in phone mode.” On mute and I couldn’t hear it ringing anymore, I just wished I could see the screen to know what was wrong,” Godball said, referring to interactions with parents and in-laws.

There are already a number of remote access apps for Android such as TeamViewer and Android VNC-Viewer. But Microsoft seems to think there might be room to bring its brand and ecosystem into space, too — assuming Nadella signs it on.