That's it for now: we hope that the website which we've talked about in this post will allow many users and system administrators to quickly get the Microsoft Remote Desktop app for macOS without going through the App Store and/or having to create an AppleID in a simple, fast and legitimate way.

It goes without saying that everything is absolutely legal, as expected from an official Microsoft site.

All the individual apps included in the Office 20 suites, namely Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlookįor all these software, a link is made available that allows the direct download of the installer, without having to go through stores, distribution sites where authentication is mandatory or anything like that.

Office 20 (all versions: home & student, professional, enterprise, etc).

Here's a brief list of the other macOS ports that you will find there: The site is called and is full of direct download links to most of the Microsoft apps for macOS, including - yet not limiting to - the Microsoft Remote Desktop app. Luckily enough, Microsoft recently released a dedicated website for those system administrators who want to acquire Windows software for Mac without having to go through the perils of the App Store. If you're stuck with these kind of issues, looking for an alternative way to retrieve those apps is more than legitimate: unfortunately, until not so long ago, finding the macOS port of most Microsoft apps was really difficult, with the constant risk of ending up downloading outdated versions from 'scary' download sites with spam-like behaviours ( Softonic and the likes) and installers full of bloatware that you might as well want to avoid.

The macOS version is considered 'too old' or incompatible with the minimum requirements asked by the App Store for that specific app.

The Mac on which you are working has a registered AppleID account with a forgotten password: this is another scenario where accessing the App Store can be difficult, because the password is required even to remove or replace the account if some anti-theft services (such as the 'find your mac' feature) have been activated ahead of time of your own Mac).

You don't have an AppleID (and you are not willing to create one for such a trivial and once-in-a-lifetime need as downloading remote access software).

For example, you can't easily do that if: The need of downloading the MS RDP app outside the App Store is something that I personally had to achieve at leat two or three times, due to the fact that using the 'proper' channel - the App Store - might be very tricky under various circumstances. If you're in a hurry, here's the official (and 100% legitimate) Microsoft Remote Desktop macOS app direct download link, taken from the same official Microsoft page which we will discuss later: for more information about this (official) link we still recommend to keep reading.

Windows remote client for mac