This is the most common myth. Undoubtedly, there are economies of scale when the quantity of users reaches 50 or more. However, our Multi-session Windows Virtual Desktops are cost-effective even for as low as five users only.

Let’s make some maths. For instance, let’s calculate your TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) for some low-end five PCs in the office. It will be around $4000 to purchase them only and you will have to upgrade them each four years. Then you spend $199 per PC for Windows 10 Pro license per PC and $32 user/month for Microsoft 365 E3 Apps. Also, you will need some basic IT management (software upgrades, antiviruses, troubleshooting, backup management. etc.) of this simple infrastructure – let’s take it as a minimum $50 per month per PC.

So, the TCO per month is $4000//4/12 + $199*5/4/12 + $32*5 + $50*5 = $514 month or slightly more than $100 per PC per month, while it’s only $400 per month or $80 per user per month if you move to the cloud with our Windows Virtual Desktops solution.

But, these are your spendings analysis only. Let’s see what you get.

On the one hand, for your $100 per user per month, you will get a very basic PC for each user. Should you need a more powerful PC, you will have to buy it increasing your TCO to $150 and more (sometimes much more). Should any PC fails, you will have to wait for repair and/or replacement. Moreover, the internet speed of these PCs is limited to your office PC … and you can use them in your office only.

On the other hand, with our Multi-session Windows Virtual Desktops, for $80 only you will have the experience of using a set of five very powerful virtual machines with burstable CPUs (the CPU speed increases automatically when the workload increases). It never fails and doesn’t need any maintenance. And on top of that, the internet connection of each (!) virtual machine is 1Gbps (or more) no matter how many of them you have. But the most important benefit is that your employees’ locations are not limited to your office anymore, now they can work from anywhere.

As you can see, our multi-session Windows Virtual Desktops are a cost-effective solution for as low as five users’ offices. Additionally, it reshapes your employees’ productivity to the next level.

A couple of years ago, this issue was a serious obstacle for moving to the cloud. The screen refresh rate was too low, the mouse and keyboard inputs were lagging, the connections were dropping sometimes so the overall experience was far away from optimal.

Nowadays, this is not the case anymore.

Microsoft has created the new RDP protocol which drastically optimized screen refreshing, so you’ll hardly notice any difference when you switch between your local PC and Windows Virtual Desktop.

Furthermore, the multi-session Windows Virtual Desktops we provide are hosted on Microsoft Azure datacenters. These are distributed across the world to ensure that the connection between you and your virtual desktop will be fast and consistent wherever you are. On top of that, Microsoft Azure datacenters’ infrastructure is thoroughly optimized for Windows Virtual Desktops.

Moreover, the internet connection of the Windows Virtual Desktops is as fast as 1 Gbps or even more for each (sic!) desktop. Compare it to your office network where all the computers share the same bandwidth. So, it takes just seconds to download or upload huge amounts of data.

Hence, modern Windows Virtual Desktops cannot be considered slow anymore. These days, they are much faster than the average office PC. 

Many suggest that WVD is nothing but a simplified Windows Server experience. However, it is not.  Unlike Windows Server, multi-session Windows Virtual Desktops provide a true Windows 10 experience which ensures easy onboarding for all of the users regardless of their skill levels. Moreover, WVD is not based on Windows Server at all. Microsoft developed Windows Virtual Desktops as a separate project solely based on Windows 10. So, you’ll get a native Windows 10 desktop instead of a Windows “desktop experience” with Windows Server.

In simple words, the WVD provides several layers of data security. First, all the data is backed up consistently in the Microsoft Azure cloud, so no byte can be lost due to a hardware failure. The next layer is the isolated environment for user sessions, so each user gets a separate “Windows 10 cloud PC” where you are in charge to set the permissions to collaborate or not on particular data with other users. Finally, there is multi-factor authentication for every user making impossible any unauthorized access.

Although there are several ways for moving your data to the cloud safely, we recommend using OneDrive in case of moving to WVD. The main reason for that is OneDrive allows moving the data seamlessly for the users. They can work with WVD one day and then ext day be switched back to “on-premises” data storage, and then again to Windows Virtual Desktop. So, most of the users likely won’t even realize that something changed in the first place.

Generally speaking, any user can have their own set of apps to use and access, and fortunately, you don’t have to install these apps for each user separately. That’s being said, any app is being installed once only and then propagated across the WVDs you select where it’s needed. 

There are two ways on how to manage the users on WVD. The first one involves some basic knowledge of the Azure dashboard, so you (or your IT specialist) can create and delete any users and grant them different levels of access with a couple of clicks. Or, the second way, is to instruct us when you need to add or delete the user and/or change their access.

The WVD doesn’t change the way you print. You can send documents to your office printer even if you are working with WVD on the go or from home Once your office printer is powered on and connected to the internet, any authorized WVD user can use it.