We performed a comparison between Citrix Workspace vs. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Citrix Workspace has the winning edge in this comparison. It has better ratings when it comes to features, ROI, and service and support.
"It is a good product. I don't have any complaints."
"Citrix Workspace can present desktop applications with ease, in an efficient and secure manner. The performance is good, it is a great piece of software."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"Its user-friendliness is most valuable. It was easy to log in and navigate. Some of such solutions are not very user-friendly, but this one was."
"The most valuable feature of Citrix Workspace is its security."
"From my perspective, the most valuable feature is the manageability."
"The most valuable feature is the seamless application edition with the low-level network bandwidth because we have between 10 and 15 sites in France with a low level of communication needs. We need to deploy our main application, the ERP system, and we needed an efficient solution to provide a solution to the remote sites, with very small links between the data center and the remote site."
"The basic virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) feature is most valuable. We were lucky to have it in place when the pandemic hit. It is used very heavily now."
"The solution has very smooth connectivity and is very user friendly."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is that it scales well."
"The most valuable features are the desktop session and desktop virtualization."
"Installing Microsoft Desktop Services is straightforward."
"The solution works on Microsoft servers."
"The product saves time."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution is now stable."
"When there are technical issues, sometimes we can't get on the cloud."
"I've recently tried to use Citrix on Ubuntu, and I don't know if this is an Ubuntu issue or a vendor issue, but you can't use Citrix right now on Ubuntu 20.04."
"It takes time to load."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"The lag when using Skype or Screen Sharing with multiple users needs to improve, as it makes it difficult for us to continue when we have to restart the system."
"It is slow. When everybody is logged in, it does have a tendency to slow down. You can tell the connectivity slows down a little bit, but it's still a good product."
"I have noticed that the current compatibility issue with the latest version of Windows 11 is a concern for me and my client. While the client has support for Windows 11, it appears that the Citrix Workspace is only compatible with Windows 10, which does not support the newest version. This is an area that I believe could be improved upon."
"Integration with other vendors could be improved."
"We'd like more granular security control of the desktop services."
"Remote Desktop Services doesn't scale well."
"We encounter challenges with portability, especially for users of iOS devices."
"The stability must be improved."
"It could be made simpler from a management perspective."
"The administrative functionality is not enough for me."
"I would like to see the hard drives work without locking up and integrate the local drives in the next release."
"The solution should introduce a chat feature for end users."
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Citrix Workspace is ranked 6th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 26 reviews while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 76 reviews. Citrix Workspace is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Citrix Workspace writes "Useful virtual desktop usage from anywhere, simple deployment, and straightforward to maintain". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services writes "Easy to set up and reliable, but needs an additional control panel". Citrix Workspace is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon View, OpenText Exceed TurboX, Nerdio and Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, VMware Workstation, Parallels Access and Apache Guacamole. See our Citrix Workspace vs. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services report.
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