Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor June 7, 2021, 6:03 a.m. PT Credit: Microsoft Microsoft is rebranding its Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service as "Azure Virtual Desktop." ...

The second flavor is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) where you spin up virtual machines (VMs)-- on Hyper-V or VMware -- and each user is assigned their own VM with Windows client running in it.

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 has released Windows 11 preview images for Azure Virtual Desktop. The release promises exclusive support for multi-session, with an experience similar to that of a local Windows 11 machine.

Azure Virtual Desktop host pools can now be joined to the Azure Active Directory service, Microsoft announced on Wednesday. This capability lets organizations using the Azure Virtual Desktop ...

Azure Virtual Desktop’s flexibility and security make it an excellent desktop virtualization solution for businesses with remote and mobile workforces, says Samson Barasa, technical consultant ...

Microsoft warned customers they might experience up to 30 minutes of black screens when logging into Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) after installing the KB5040525 Windows 10 July 2024 preview update.

Microsoft has made generally available two new features of Windows Virtual Desktop: Azure portal integration for easier deployment and management, and audio/video redirection for Microsoft Teams to ...

An early 2022 survey from eG Innovations and AVD TechFest of around 500 organizations found that 58% intend to have Azure Virtual Desktop installations running within two years.

Chicago-based Nerdio provides a platform for managing virtual desktops hosted on Azure. The software is used by workers across 15,000 organizations, up from 5,000 at the time of the company’s ...

Using the new Windows 10 version, WVD can be used to provide remote desktop sessions with multiple users remotely logged in to the same Windows 10 virtual machine (or, alternatively, a Windows ...