Windows Virtual Desktop gives you a Windows 7 or 10 desktop on Azure
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This is some pretty huge news, basically Windows licensing is going heavily subscription based and is free (as a part of existing offerings.) This is limited functionality for now but shows the direction that Microsoft is going.
I wouldn't be surprised to find Microsoft all but abandoning their traditional desktop licensing model and letting Linux and Mac duke it out on the physical hardware and concentrating all of their resources on a purely virtualized platform that runs on Windows.
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wont be long before we are all running windows on azure
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Didn't Google already do something like this?
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Amazon has had this for a while now with workspaces.
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@stacksofplates said in Windows Virtual Desktop gives you a Windows 7 or 10 desktop on Azure:
Amazon has had this for a while now with workspaces.
Yep been going for a long time now, don't know if they still are but last time I knew they were using Server 200R2 with the desktop experience enabled to make it look like a windows 7 desktop, this was due to licencing reasons.
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@stacksofplates said in Windows Virtual Desktop gives you a Windows 7 or 10 desktop on Azure:
Amazon has had this for a while now with workspaces.
Ah that must be what I was thinking of.
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If anyone would like more information, you can signup for preview:
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What does E3 cost?
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@aaronstuder said in Windows Virtual Desktop gives you a Windows 7 or 10 desktop on Azure:
What does E3 cost?
$20/user/month. Has pretty much never changed.
https://products.office.com/en-us/business/compare-more-office-365-for-business-plans -
This is just driving the last few nails into the coffin for Home use of Windows in it's existing form.
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@stacksofplates said in Windows Virtual Desktop gives you a Windows 7 or 10 desktop on Azure:
Amazon has had this for a while now with workspaces.
They have, but Workspaces is essentially incapable of running Excel. Makes it a bit of a no go if you're tied to MS Office which a lot of people are.
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@ndc said in Windows Virtual Desktop gives you a Windows 7 or 10 desktop on Azure:
@stacksofplates said in Windows Virtual Desktop gives you a Windows 7 or 10 desktop on Azure:
Amazon has had this for a while now with workspaces.
They have, but Workspaces is essentially incapable of running Excel. Makes it a bit of a no go if you're tied to MS Office which a lot of people are.
Sounds like there is a lot of Sunk-Cost going on if your stuck to using Excel for your business critical functions. . .
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@dustinb3403 said in Windows Virtual Desktop gives you a Windows 7 or 10 desktop on Azure:
@ndc said in Windows Virtual Desktop gives you a Windows 7 or 10 desktop on Azure:
@stacksofplates said in Windows Virtual Desktop gives you a Windows 7 or 10 desktop on Azure:
Amazon has had this for a while now with workspaces.
They have, but Workspaces is essentially incapable of running Excel. Makes it a bit of a no go if you're tied to MS Office which a lot of people are.
Sounds like there is a lot of Sunk-Cost going on if your stuck to using Excel for your business critical functions. . .
Business critical or not, getting people to change is hard. Frequently they will spend large amounts of money to avoid it.
MS Office is definitely a solid example of a product that induces such behavior.
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@ndc that's even more suno costs
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@mlnews Read that earlier. Sounds interesting but we will have to see.
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@stacksofplates said in Windows Virtual Desktop gives you a Windows 7 or 10 desktop on Azure:
Amazon has had this for a while now with workspaces.
That's RDS, though, rather than Windows 10. Nearly the same, but not completely identical.
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@scottalanmiller could you possibly see Microsoft eventually putting the prices up on RDS Cal's targetting hosted desktop suppliers and companies running RDS/VDI on their own servers and try and push them to run on azure instead, so not making it profitable running on their own infrastructure?
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@stuartjordan said in Windows Virtual Desktop gives you a Windows 7 or 10 desktop on Azure:
@scottalanmiller could you possibly see Microsoft eventually putting the prices up on RDS Cal's targetting hosted desktop suppliers and companies running RDS/VDI on their own servers and try and push them to run on azure instead, so not making it profitable running on their own infrastructure?
not likely, biting the hand that feeds them, kind of thing.
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Microsoft is smart, they don't burn their bridges. Especially now with Balmer gone, HE was NOT smart and would burn MS to the ground just to make a point. He was driven by emotion, not logic, and controller too many shares to be protected from himself.
Now, MS is operating like a smart, logical business and it shows. They aren't going to turn the market against them. As long as MS makes their money, they don't care who else is involved.
