Virtual desktops · RankedMicrosoft Windows 365
Microsoft Windows 365 is a cloud PC service from Microsoft that gives each user a Windows desktop hosted in the cloud · microsoft.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
V2 Cloud is first at 32%.
Azure Virtual Desktop is first at 23%. 2 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Citrix DaaS is first at 24%.
Why models recommend it
“For most mid-market B2B companies, particularly those already using Microsoft 365, Windows 365 is currently the leading recommendation.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“Go with `Windows 365` if you want a turnkey, low-overhead experience and your stack revolves around Microsoft 365.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Microsoft Windows 365 (Cloud PC) — *Best Overall for Simplicity & Lean IT Teams*”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“Enterprise Workforce | Citrix DaaS, Microsoft Windows 365, VMware Horizon”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · first choice
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Windows 365, over the 20 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 15 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 8 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 7 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Microsoft Windows 365 →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Microsoft Windows 365's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- За бизнеса
- Price stated
- отделен лиценз на потребител срещу фиксирана месечна такса за достъп и използване на всеки Cloud PC
- Starting price
- null
- Free plan or trial
- Клиентите могат да получат промоционален лиценз за Windows 365 Business, Windows 365 Enterprise, или и за двете издания, за да осъществяват достъп и да използват версията 2vCPU/8 ГБ/128 ГБ безплатно за до 30 дни („Период за безплатно изпробване“).
- Hosting
- по целия свят с изключение на Китай и страните, където е под ембарго (Куба, Иран, Корейска народно-демократична република, Судан и Сирия), Австралия, Белгия, Канада, Дания, Финландия, Франция, Германия
- Customers named
- Krones, One NZ, Phoenix, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Heneways
- Also from Microsoft
- Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft 365 Administration, Microsoft 365 Backup, Microsoft 365 Compliance Center, Microsoft 365 Copilot and 165 more
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 14 of the 20 answers that named Microsoft Windows 365 and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-seven of the forty-seven domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Windows 365 came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |