We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VMware Workstation based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The main difference between the two solutions is that users of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services feel it should integrate with other operating systems and say they would like a notification feature, while VMware Workstation users say the solution’s interface needs improvement. In this comparison, VMware Workstation comes out slightly on top because it is low-cost and users report an ROI.
"The installation of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services was easy."
"You can scale the product."
"The solution performs well and is easy to use."
"The product is stable."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Things can be made easier if someone is not with us or at a long distance since we can connect easily with those people. So, it's easy for us to use such features."
"The solution is easy to deploy and there are many features available that you can turn on or off depending on your budget."
"It will not harm any of the computer settings to run a specific program. For example, if a program needs a specific security policy, we don't have to use the shared configuration. We have an individual copy of Windows installed on the virtual machine, so anybody can access that. It helps us a lot."
"VMware Workstation allows you to run a virtual machine."
"The features are good."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the DirectX support, you can run Microsoft Hyper-V in virtual environments which is good for me to test different installations. Additionally, you can set up different VLANs, and overall it is a complete solution."
"The most valuable feature of the VMware Workstation is the ease to create a development environment. When you have different ongoing developments, you often need to create a lot of different development environments. With this workstation solution, you can have a development environment for all the things you develop."
"VMware Workstation’s most valuable features are backup and data transfer from one server to another."
"It's stable."
"We'd like to see more integration with other vendors."
"We find the services are not as transparent as we would like for our integration with Citrix."
"The solution is unsuitable for direct external internet connections. You must set up a VPN and password handling to use it."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services could improve by allowing the sharing of the office application. For example, the ability to replace a PC when something is wrong."
"We had some instability during the implementation process. This has since been resolved."
"Lacks a notification feature when internet is down."
"From the perspective of an IT professional, Microsoft Remote Desktop is very easy to use. However, it could be made easier to use for the end user, especially when it comes to activating it."
"Teams component can be a bit cumbersome to use. It takes some time to get it working as expected."
"The product is outdated."
"It would be helpful if VMware Workstation included an in-built monitoring tool for monitoring things."
"They could bring in many different features from VMware vSphere to Workstation."
"VMware Workstation’s scalability could be improved."
"I have had issues with the virtual network adapters in the past that has taken some time to troubleshoot."
"I need to buy a newer version of the tool to support Windows Server."
"Performance could be improved, it's somewhat clunky."
"The solution freezes sometimes."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 76 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services writes "Easy to set up and reliable, but needs an additional control panel". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, Parallels Access and Apache Guacamole, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, VMware Fusion, KVM and Parallels Desktop. See our Microsoft Remote Desktop Services vs. VMware Workstation report.
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