The new Microsoft Teams app for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) reached "general availability" commercial-release status for business customers, Microsoft announced on Tuesday. Microsoft had ...

A public preview of Microsoft Teams for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments began rolling out this week. The preview is accessible to Teams users running Azure Virtual Desktop and ...

In an effort to capture what it sees as a growing market for virtual desktops within enterprises, Microsoft is simplifying some licensing agreements and enhancing its virtual-desktop-related software.

Microsoft executives are defending the software giant’s new Windows 8 license requirement, which will raise prices for businesses whose employees use their personal iPads and Android tablets to access ...

Microsoft recently partnered with Citrix to offer VDI solutions. But Schuster's post advised only to use VDI in "specific scenarios." For instance, VDI makes sense in those cases in which workers have ...

With technological innovation reshaping industries at a breakneck pace, the very framework of how we work, interact and live is undergoing a massive transformation. As virtualization and cloud ...

With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft is now in the VDI game, although quite frankly I’ve sat through sales pitches by VMware reps talking about how VDI is the “way to go” for the ...

As Microsoft prepares to stake its claim in the tablet market with Windows 8, the company is tweaking its software licensing to make it more expensive for organizations that remotely access virtual ...

Microsoft's new desktop virtualization initiatives announced yesterday are a long-anticipated move to make desktop and application virtualization easier and cheaper for enterprises. But it's also part ...

So in Part 1 of 2 of this article on VDI titled “Microsoft’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) (Part 1 of 2)” where I covered the Understanding Where VDI Fits in the Enterprise I gave a background ...

While a virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI) may promise some advantages for the enterprise, the approach is still more expensive and less responsive than standard desktop PC deployments, contends ...