Rob Helm, Jim Gaynor, and Rob Horwitz explain licensing changes that will benefit customers centralizing Windows desktops in their own data centers or with small service providers.
Rob Helm, Jim Gaynor, and Rob Horwitz explain licensing changes that will benefit customers centralizing Windows desktops in their own data centers or with small service providers.
Windows 10 and 11 will cost less to license in some virtual desktop infrastructures, but Amazon Web Services, Google, Alibaba, and their customers will not benefit.
Most often used to refer to virtual desktops running the Windows client OS in VMs (virtual machines); sometimes used more broadly to describe any server-based desktop architecture or infrastructure. See synonym VDI for in-depth entry.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is most often used to refer to virtual desktops running the Windows client OS in VMs (virtual machines); occasionally used more broadly to describe any server-based desktop architecture or infrastructure.
When customers use virtual machines to provide server-based desktops, the Windows OS in the OS layer can be licensed based on several licensing options
Any server-based desktop infrastructure typically includes three key Microsoft products in the infrastructure layer, which must be licensed: Windows Server, SQL Server, and System Center
