Microsoft is rebranding its Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service as "Azure Virtual Desktop." At the same time, the company is introducing a new ISV/per-user pricing option and taking the wraps off a ...

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As remote work became the default for many companies during the pandemic, it’s maybe no surprise that services like Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop, which gives users access to a fully managed ...

Microsoft renamed Windows Virtual Desktop to Azure Virtual Desktop. With the name change, Microsoft announced enhanced support for Azure Active Directory in preview. Microsoft also announced a monthly ...

Do you have situations where users work from home, connecting from personal devices? Do you trust those devices and the networks they're connecting from? Do you have compliance regulations that ...

As of July 1, Microsoft changed its Windows Azure licensing terms to allow the use of Remote Desktop Services (RDS) on Windows Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Before that date, Microsoft's licensing ...

Desktops are diversifying. Long after we all collectively moved off of the traditional desk desktop (i.e the mostly wooden one, where you might still keep your coffee, spectacles and pens these days), ...

‘This is the start of the desktop in the cloud computing revolution,’ says IGEL Co-CEO Jed Ayres. ‘It’s the cloud equivalent of when Bill Gates said he wanted a PC on every desk and in every home. We ...

Cloud is powerful. Plugging into cloud computing software applications and data services means adopting and opening up an organization’s operational fabric to a powerhouse of functions and IT form ...