We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VMware Player based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Microsoft is very reasonable in its approach to cost."
"The solution is really fast."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution performs well and is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is that it gives me full accessibility to my servers."
"It is a stable product."
"It's really easy to build testing environments with VMware Player."
"VMware Player helps you to virtualize and install Ubuntu or any other operating system, even on a Windows laptop."
"The solution's technical support team is excellent."
"VMware Player's best feature is the ability to run different OS's simultaneously."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Player is the ability to snapshot with or without memory."
"There is a limitation on the number of concurrent users."
"There could be some improvement in the integration of the solution."
"Microsoft Desktop Services is stable but it takes up a lot of resources in the CPU. It's a bit heavier than some solutions."
"Lacks a notification feature when internet is down."
"My customers are worried that the RDP protocol can be easily compromised and would like the option to use an alternative like Blast."
"Microsoft still has some really bad remote desktop appliance for Mac."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services needs to improve its security."
"VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources."
"VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround."
"When you go to work on a server, it opens up the whole window, and that causes an error inside VMware Player."
"Its networking features need improvement."
"The tool has limited scalability."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 76 reviews while VMware Player is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 10 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while VMware Player is rated 8.6. 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 Player writes "A highly stable solution that has the ability to snapshot with or without memory". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Parallels Access, whereas VMware Player is most compared with VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Desktop. See our Microsoft Remote Desktop Services vs. VMware Player report.
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