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Microsoft Windows 365

16Judge labels

7First choices

1Negative labels

8 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Microsoft Windows 365 was named 4 times in Virtual desktops, where Azure Virtual Desktop led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business10 of 62

under the label threshold

Mid-market10 of 81

under the label threshold

Enterprise5 of 57

under the label threshold

In virtual desktops · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Microsoft Windows 365 for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Virtual desktops	IT operations and endpoint	2%	10 of 81	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Azure Virtual Desktop at 22%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Microsoft Windows 365 yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Microsoft Windows 365 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase2 labels2

Comparative4 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained4 labels4

Scale-constrained2 labels1

Negative3 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 10 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“It is the easiest solution to deploy but offers the least granular control over the underlying infrastructure.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Virtual desktops · comparative prompt · first choice

“The Best Overall Recommendation: Microsoft Windows 365 (Cloud PC)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Virtual desktops · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Opt for turnkey "Cloud PC" offerings (like Microsoft Windows 365 or Omnissa Cloud PC)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Virtual desktops · negative prompt · alternative

“If you're already in the Microsoft ecosystem, Windows 365 is a strong contender.” Mistral Small · Virtual desktops · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Windows 365, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Windows 365 was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Citrix DaaS13 of 162Not among the top eight

Amazon WorkSpaces13 of 161Not among the top eight

Azure Virtual Desktop9 of 160Not among the top eight

Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop6 of 161Not among the top eight

Omnissa Horizon6 of 160Not among the top eight

V2 Cloud4 of 160Not among the top eight

VMware Horizon4 of 160Not among the top eight

Workspot3 of 160Not among the top eight

Apps4Rent2 of 160Not among the top eight

Nerdio Manager2 of 160Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Microsoft Windows 365. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 16 of the 16 answers that named Microsoft Windows 365 and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

venn.com13

geekflare.com8

getnerdio.com8

tsplus.net7

apps4rent.com6

ironorbit.com6

byteplus.com5

agilityportal.io4

apporto.com4

aws.amazon.com4

Sixty-five of the sixty-five domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Windows 365 came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

venn.com/learn/vdi/vdi-solutions10

geekflare.com/guides/best-virtual-desktop-solutions6

tsplus.net/10-virtual-desktop-infrastructure-solutions6

agilityportal.io/blog/top-virtual-desktop4

getnerdio.com/blog/vdi-solutions4

prospeo.io/s/daas-provider4

apps4rent.com/blog/top-daas-providers3

byteplus.com/en/topic/5794693

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Microsoft Windows 365 stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 320 a month (“microsoft windows 365”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 188 a month
Its own site: It sits on Microsoft's site (microsoft.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 10 of 81 in virtual desktops

Segment leader

22%

Azure Virtual Desktop

First choices: 7 across its categories
Named in: 16 answers
Its own site cited: in 16 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as Microsoft Windows 365

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Microsoft Windows 365; a claim can dispute any of them.

Microsoft Windows 365 (Cloud PC) 1

Follow Microsoft Windows 365

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Microsoft is the company behind Microsoft Windows 365.

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On record

Company records

Also from Microsoft: Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft 365 Administration, Microsoft 365 Backup, Microsoft 365 Compliance Center, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Microsoft 365 DSC and 164 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Windows 365 е вашият компютър в облака
microsoft.com/bg-bg/windows-365
For: За бизнеса
microsoft.com/bg-bg/windows-365
Price stated: отделен лиценз на потребител срещу фиксирана месечна такса за достъп и използване на всеки Cloud PC microsoft.com/bg-bg/windows-365/faq
Starting price: null microsoft.com/bg-bg/windows-365/link
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“). microsoft.com/bg-bg/windows-365
Certifications: ENERGY STAR
Hosting: по целия свят с изключение на Китай и страните, където е под ембарго (Куба, Иран, Корейска народно-демократична република, Судан и Сирия)АвстралияБелгияКанадаДанияФинландияФранцияГермания
Customers named: KronesOne NZPhoenixRegeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.Heneways
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations

What Microsoft Windows 365's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: microsoft.com/bg-bg/windows-365, microsoft.com/bg-bg/windows-365/faq, microsoft.com/bg-bg/windows-365/link, microsoft.com/de-de/windows-365/locale, microsoft.com/bg-bg/windows-365/business. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Microsoft Windows 365's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Microsoft Windows 365, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Microsoft Windows 365 by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Microsoft Windows 365 is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Microsoft Windows 365, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.