Together, we helped hundreds of customers and many thousands of end users maintain productivity throughout a tumultuous year, often deploying thousands of users in just a few days! In March of 2020, Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure launched support for Windows Virtual Desktop after nearly a year of collaboration between Microsoft and VMware. Since then, we’ve worked jointly with customers to deliver the cost savings and infrastructure modernization of Windows Virtual Desktop with the advanced capabilities of VMware Horizon. Let’s take a deeper look, starting with Windows Virtual Desktop and the Microsoft and VMware partnership. Horizon Apps Standard Subscription allows you to deploy Horizon environments in any single location, on-premises or in the cloud, and the value really shines when used with VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure to deliver the benefits of Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop. With this powerful combination, you’ll be able to take advantage of the unique capabilities of Windows Virtual Desktop, like Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session, with the added management and user experience features of VMware Horizon. One of our brand-new options is the Horizon Apps Standard Subscription offering, which represents the lowest-cost path to VMware Horizon’s enterprise desktop and app virtualization capabilities. Created with low-complexity environments in mind, Horizon Apps Standard Subscription provides advanced management and best-in-class user experience capabilities to customers that don’t require hybrid management or enterprise-class application and user environment management.
Recently, we announced new subscription licensing and packaging options for VMware Horizon. Broadly speaking, we believe our approach to transitioning to a more flexible subscription licensing model will help more customers leverage the VMware Horizon platform, and do so in a way that can easily grow and adapt to the changing demands placed on remote desktop and application environments.