Microsoft is believed to be building a Windows Azure-hosted desktop virtualization service that could be available on a pay-per-use basis. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry ...

Unfortunately, Azure Virtual Desktop still only supports Windows operating systems, so if you're looking to get a Linux-based OS remotely, this still isn't the best solution for you.

Sometimes an end user application isn't happy running on a server OS. Windows Multisession, only available in Azure Virtual Desktop (not on-premises or in another cloud) neatly bypasses the app ...

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 ...

Also new in Azure Virtual Desktop is support for managing multi-session virtual machines (VMs) with Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Microsoft’s unified service for device management.

However, one big catch for current users of the Azure Virtual Desktop service is that Trusted Launch use depends on also using Generation-2 Azure virtual machines.

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 ...

This time it's for delivery of virtualized desktops and apps on the Azure public cloud. The announcement, which came as a surprise to many in the industry, means that VMware's Horizon Cloud Desktop-as ...

1) Virtual Desktop Service When hosting your virtual desktops in the cloud, the cloud provider, in this case Microsoft, manages the service. No additional steps need to be taken to keep this ...

While Windows Server has long supported this multi-user style of operation, offering many concurrent remote desktop sessions at a time, the Windows Server desktop experience isn't the same as the ...