The Azure Virtual Desktop service now offers the choice of using the Windows 11 operating system at the preview stage, per a Thursday Microsoft announcement. Azure Virtual Desktop is a 2-year-old ...

Microsoft on Friday announced Azure Virtual Desktop support for virtual machines with "Trusted Launch" protections. Trusted Launch support for Azure virtual machines actually reached the "general ...

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 ...

As the digital landscape evolves and remote, hybrid and on-the-go productivity becomes more common in workplaces everywhere, businesses must ensure employees have seamless and secure access to the ...

Managing and deploying real-life PCs in a company is an expensive affair, and it will cost you in both money and time. What's ...

Virtual desktops have become a mission critical IT component. Updating backup and recovery practices will ensure greater resiliency during cloud outages. Written by eWEEK content and product ...

VMware, which last year announced a deal to integrate its infrastructure with Amazon's public cloud, has entered into a deal with Amazon's main competitor, Microsoft. This time it's for delivery of ...

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 ...

A new Windows version for multiple users was spotted last month, and now we know what it's for: Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) is a new service providing multi-user remote desktop and VDI in the Azure ...

Microsoft and Citrix revealed on Friday last week that Microsoft was dropping its Azure RemoteApp service, and its replacement would be coming from Citrix in the form of something currently named ...

Both Google and Microsoft want your desktop running on the cloud. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, they may just be successful sooner than you think. I cut my computing teeth on terminals and ...