Nine-question, architect-guided assessment gives IT leaders an honest, personalized recommendation grounded in real-world enterprise migration experience.
Liquidware, the leader in digital workspace management, today announced the launch of its Azure Virtual Desktop & Windows 365 Platform Guide, a free online resource built around the Cloud Desktop Challenge — an interactive assessment that helps organizations determine whether Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Windows 365, or a combination of both is the right fit for their environment. The assessment can be instantly accessed at https://www.liquidware.com/azure-virtual-desktop-windows-365-platform-guide
We built the Cloud Desktop Challenge to give IT leaders an honest, architect-level read on their environment in just a few minutes…”
— Jason E. Smith, VP, Alliances & Marketing, Liquidware
As enterprises accelerate the move to cloud-hosted desktops, many IT teams reach the same decision point and stall, because both AVD and Windows 365 are strong platforms, and the right choice depends on workloads, application footprint, user profiles, scale, and what an organization is migrating from. The Cloud Desktop Challenge is designed to remove that friction, giving decision-makers a clear, defensible direction in a matter of minutes.
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An Honest, Architect-Level Assessment
The Cloud Desktop Challenge guides participants through nine focused questions covering their current environment, migration drivers, applications, and users. It then returns a written assessment like a senior architect would provide after reviewing an environment — a clear platform recommendation, the reasoning behind it, and a readiness score organizations can act on. Rather than steering every respondent toward a single answer, the assessment is built to be genuinely useful: it recommends AVD, Windows 365, or a hybrid of both based on real signals, and it will point toward the simpler platform when that is the better fit.
Built on Real Enterprise Migration Experience
The logic behind the assessment reflects the experience of Liquidware engineers who have guided large enterprises through every stage of the journey — from physical, to VDI, to DaaS. From that vantage point, they see clear, prevailing use cases for AVD among enterprise accounts moving off Citrix, Omnissa, and RDS, as well as specific, well-defined scenarios where Windows 365 is the smarter choice. The Cloud Desktop Challenge puts that judgment in the hands of IT leaders directly, with no sales call required to access it.
Complementing Microsoft Across the Cloud Desktop
The assessment also highlights where Liquidware’s platform strengthens a Microsoft cloud desktop as organizations scale. FlexApp complements Microsoft Intune for application delivery with a modern approach where applications are never installed, they are simply attached; ProfileUnity runs alongside Microsoft FSLogix for profile and persona management; Stratusphere UX helps right-size environments from real workload data, builds an accurate application inventory, and diagnoses login times after cutover; and CommandCTRL provides a real-time remediation and remote support solution across the environment. Each recommendation builds on what Microsoft already delivers, targeting the specific points where teams tend to encounter friction at scale.
“Choosing between AVD and Windows 365 shouldn’t require a lengthy engagement to get right. We built the Cloud Desktop Challenge to give IT leaders an honest, architect-level read on their environment in just a few minutes — the same guidance our engineers apply after years of taking enterprises from physical to VDI to DaaS. If the answer is Windows 365, the assessment says so. That credibility is the point.” — Jason E. Smith, VP, Alliances & Marketing, Liquidware.
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