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.
"The ease of access and the confidentiality and security that it provides is what we like best."
"The most valuable feature of Citrix Workspace is the virtual desktop that we can use anywhere, at any time, and without taking our laptop."
"Citrix Workspace's standout feature is its flexibility."
"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."
"With this product, everyone can have a similar kind of desktop environment."
"It is a good product. I don't have any complaints."
"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."
"Ability to connect remotely."
"The solution is really fast."
"It's scalable enough for our needs and very reliable."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Microsoft is very reasonable in its approach to cost."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is managing the remote desktop end user or remote server."
"It's simple and easy to use."
"We have scaled the solution and find this easy to do."
"The solution performs well and is easy to use."
"Citrix Workspace can improve by being more secure, but this would apply to any solution not only Citrix Workspace."
"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."
"The product has some bugs, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"It takes time to load."
"If there are connectivity issues, there are stability issues."
"The application is now very complex. We started with Citrix on PCs. Now, to access the same application, we need to have a StoreFront Server, the Delivery Controller, and Citrix License Server. It's now very complex."
"The Citrix Workspace interface could improve. Additionally, if they are able to provide a mobile application"
"The only problems that you're going to have with the remote desktop are going to be firewall ports, security, and NLA, which is a net network level access control, or TLS transfer layer security or some other SSL-type of security."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services could improve by allowing the sharing of the office application. For example, the ability to replace a PC when something is wrong."
"I would like to be able to access the remote desktop using a web-based interface, rather than having to use the client."
"The stability could be improved."
"The solution isn't as good as the Citrix option."
"There is a limitation on the number of concurrent users."
"We find the services are not as transparent as we would like for our integration with Citrix."
"I would like to be able to leverage it on other operating systems."
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Citrix Workspace is ranked 6th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 25 reviews while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 75 reviews. Citrix Workspace is rated 8.6, 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 Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon View, OpenText Exceed TurboX and Nerdio, 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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