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.
"From my perspective, the most valuable feature is the manageability."
"Ability to connect remotely."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"The price and user interface are great."
"It allows us to mute users who adhere to a policy of not allowing direct VPN access for security reasons. It is easy to use."
"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."
"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 most valuable feature is connectivity. The remote connection is the reason we are using this solution."
"What I found most valuable in Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is accessibility because the solution lets you take control of your computer remotely."
"Everything is really good and it works well."
"Good screen draw feature and ability to use two monitors."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is performance."
"The technical support is good."
"We have scaled the solution and find this easy to do."
"It's largely stable."
"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."
"We had an issue when we were using the Citrix server. We needed to install the Citrix Runtime in the server where the application was hosted."
"There is room for slight improvement in performance optimization and interface refinement."
"We're running into all kinds of speed issues and reliability issues. There are frequent disconnects, and we're not sure whether that's a problem with the product, with the way the product has been deployed, or with server capacity or bandwidth. Our IT department pays attention to that, but we are feeling the impact of that."
"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."
"Integration with other vendors could be improved."
"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."
"This solution is resource-intensive, it takes a lot of Bandwidth and a lot of the resources of the server."
"Microsoft Desktop Services is stable but it takes up a lot of resources in the CPU. It's a bit heavier than some solutions."
"We've had issues with security breaches."
"The stability could be improved."
"We'd like them to continue to improve on security."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"The training profiles could be better."
"I would like to see a web-based interface, instead of client installation to refresh the UI through HTML."
"It could offer better security for enterprises."
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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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