Microsoft brings its cloudy virtual desktops on-prem to AzureStack HCI

Microsoft has announced that its Azure Virtual Desktop offering is available on-prem. The descent from the clouds for Redmond's desktop virtualization (VDI) service is made possible by the formal release of version 23H2 of Azure Stack HCI, Microsoft's hyperconverged offering that brings a subset of Azure to your bit barn – …

[Anonymous Coward]

I know this is a wild idea, but...

what about running a desktop on truly local hardware, something that doesn't require an always-on, low-latency, reliable internet connection? You could even get better performance by reducing the software layers by running the OS on the actual hardware...

[captain veg]

Re: I know this is a wild idea, but...

Maybe some enterprising manufacturer could come up with "hardware" packaged into a portable battery-powered box with some kind of built-in screen and keyboard so that you could work while on the move.

-A.

[43300]

"a preview of tools that migrate Hyper-V VMs to Azure Stack HCI"

Given that Azure Stack HCI is pretty much just a cloudy-linked Hyper-V instance, I don't imagine that will pose any difficulties!

[Anonymous Coward]

"Given that Azure Stack HCI is pretty much just a cloudy-linked Hyper-V instance, I don't imagine that will pose any difficulties!"

You'd think so, but in reality Azure Stack HCI is quite different from Hyper-V, even when run on-premises. ANd on top of that it still has a ton of bugs and annoyances over those of Hyper-V.

What's not to love? But then, for those wedded to the Microsoft ecosystem that's just par for the courses.