Windows 365 vs Azure Virtual Desktop: Proven Best Fit
Both products put a Windows desktop in Microsoft’s cloud, and to an end user they look identical. One is a fixed price per person; the other is a metered Azure service you build and run yourself. This guide compares them for a business of ten to two hundred and fifty staff: what each platform actually is, what each costs once management labour is counted, the licensing entitlements that catch people out, how multi-session density changes the maths, the workloads and peripherals that settle the argument on their own, a five-question decision framework, the hybrid pattern most SMEs end up with, a sane rollout sequence, and the questions that expose whether your provider has modelled your estate or simply picked a favourite.
