{"id":9105,"date":"2019-03-25T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=9105"},"modified":"2022-11-04T11:54:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T10:54:44","slug":"windows-virtual-desktop-public-preview-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/03\/25\/windows-virtual-desktop-public-preview-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Virtual Desktop: Public Preview available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/winb.jpg\" width=\"58\" align=\"left\" height=\"58\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/24\/ffentliche-preview-von-windows-virtual-desktop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]Last week Microsoft released a public preview of the Windows Virtual Desktop. This allows to virtualize Windows 7 for mobile workplaces. Microsoft provides Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 7 SP1 until 2023 free of charge for this platform. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Windows Virtual Desktop enables so-called desktop virtualization in corporate environments. The deployment can be done via Microsoft Azure (from the cloud), but also via On-Premise (via own servers), as you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/de-de\/cloud-platform\/desktop-virtualization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read here<\/a>. The announcement of the Windows Virtual Desktop was already made in September 2018 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2018\/09\/24\/microsoft-365-adds-modern-desktop-on-azure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this article<\/a>. As part of Microsoft 365, Windows and Office can be virtualized via the Azure cloud and used by all devices (desktops, smartphones, etc.).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Last week Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/de-de\/services\/virtual-desktop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched<\/a> the public preview of Windows Virtual Desktop. The product is aimed at companies that need to provide a certain number of virtualized desktops for mobile workstations. In Windows Virtual Desktop, Windows 7 or Windows 10 as well as Windows Server can run from 2012 R2 upwards as operating systems and Office as office software. <\/p>\n<p>Among other things, a Microsoft 365 license (E3, E5, A3, A5, Business), a Windows 10 license (E3, E5, A3, A5) or a CAL license with Software Assurance (Windows Server) is required to use the Windows Virtual Desktop. Costs are billed based on the Azure resources consumed by the virtual machines.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<h2>Free security updates for Windows 7<\/h2>\n<p>Windows Virtual Desktop is of interest for enterprise environments where Windows 7 SP1 and Office 2010 will be deployed beyond January 14, 2020. Extended Security Updates (ESU) are available for this operating system until 2023. Bleeping Computer has a few more details within <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20211121160007\/https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/windows-7-gets-an-extra-life-with-windows-virtual-desktop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this article<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Similar articles:<br \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/09\/06\/wow-windows-7-get-extended-support-until-january-2023\/\">Wow! 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Microsoft provides Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 7 SP1 until 2023 free of charge for this platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1218,2],"tags":[1881],"class_list":["post-9105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization","category-windows","tag-windows-virtual-desktop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}