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1],factorsTitle:"What decides it",factors:[{icon:"users",title:"Named or concurrent users",text:"Windows 365 Business and Enterprise license each named user. Windows 365 Flex (formerly Frontline) licenses one active session: up to three Cloud PCs in Dedicated mode, or one Cloud PC shared by a group in Shared mode. Pooled AVD is sized to peak concurrency."},{icon:"clock",title:"Usage hours",text:"Switching AVD hosts off cuts compute only: disks, profile storage and people time carry on. A Windows 365 Business or Enterprise licence costs the same however many hours it is used."},{icon:"licence",title:"Reserved instances",text:"A one- or three-year reservation or a savings plan lowers AVD compute on a steady baseline. Without one, every host hour is billed at pay-as-you-go rates."},{icon:"shield",title:"Blast radius",text:"A multi-session host is shared, so a bad update, a runaway process or a compromised session can reach everyone signed in to it. A Cloud PC is one user's machine, so an incident stays with that user."}],verdict:"In our experience Windows 365 is the more affordable choice in most estates once profiles, storage, unreserved compute and operating effort are counted; AVD wins where usage is genuinely concurrent and shift-based, or the workload needs control Windows 365 does not give.",prices:"Like for like, Windows 365 list prices per user a month at 4 October 2026, excluding VAT: Business from \xa324.30 (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM) and Enterprise from \xa335.60 (2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM), storage included. Microsoft notes that extra costs may apply based on network usage.",source:"Microsoft UK Windows 365 pricing pages, 4 October 2026. Microsoft Learn, checked 5 October 2026: Understand and estimate costs for Azure Virtual Desktop; States and billing status of Azure Virtual Machines; What is Windows 365 Flex?; Windows 365 networking deployment options; Security recommendations for Azure Virtual Desktop."},p=[{id:"you",label:"Your team"},{id:"together",label:"Together"},{id:"systech",label:"Systech"}],y=["Assess","Design","Pilot","Migrate"],w=[{phase:"Assess",lane:"you",text:"Fill in the one-page worksheet: apps and where their data sits, hardware, licences and CALs",icon:"document"},{phase:"Assess",lane:"systech",text:"Measure concurrency and both latency paths; check entitlements against Microsoft Learn",icon:"chart"},{phase:"Assess",lane:"together",text:"Agree what success looks like: logon time, cost per user, access from anywhere, or retiring a server room",icon:"flag"},{phase:"Design",lane:"systech",text:"Size the options against measured usage, not headcount, and recommend one with the tie-breakers answered",icon:"scale"},{phase:"Design",lane:"together",text:"Write the who-runs-what split: images, hosts, patching, capacity, profiles, apps, monitoring, incidents",icon:"wrench"},{phase:"Design",lane:"you",text:"Take the comparison to finance: new spend against new spend",icon:"licence"},{phase:"Pilot",lane:"systech",text:"Build the pilot hosts or Cloud PCs, profiles and application delivery",icon:"building"},{phase:"Pilot",lane:"you",text:"A pilot group of real users on the chatty line-of-business applications",icon:"users"},{phase:"Pilot",lane:"together",text:"Measure logon time and application response; adjust sizing before anyone else moves",icon:"chart"},{phase:"Migrate",lane:"systech",text:"Staged rollout by user group; autoscale configured or licence tiers set",icon:"calendar"},{phase:"Migrate",lane:"you",text:"Retire or repurpose hardware; any Windows Server 2016 RDS role gone before 12 January 2027",icon:"tick"},{phase:"Migrate",lane:"together",text:"Review after the first month: concurrency against sizing, and cost per user against the plan",icon:"flag"}],f=[{id:"start",kind:"start",text:"List daily applications and where their data sits",x:700,y:52},{id:"d1",kind:"decision",text:"Do daily apps depend on on-site data that is staying?",x:700,y:180},{id:"d2",kind:"decision",text:"Running, or buying, Azure Local?",x:400,y:330},{id:"o1",kind:"outcome",text:"AVD on Azure Local",option:"local",x:150,y:330},{id:"d3",kind:"decision",text:"Does RDS work, on a supported Windows Server?",x:400,y:470},{id:"o2",kind:"outcome",text:"Stay on RDS and fix the estate",option:"rds",x:150,y:470},{id:"d4",kind:"decision",text:"Hardware with life left?",x:400,y:610},{id:"o3",kind:"outcome",text:"AVD Hybrid. Name who patches and powers the hosts",option:"hybrid",x:150,y:610},{id:"o4",kind:"outcome",text:"New spend against new spend: compare an on-site refresh and the cloud fairly",option:"review",x:400,y:722},{id:"d5",kind:"decision",text:"Is demand uneven: busy days, quiet nights?",x:1e3,y:330},{id:"o5",kind:"outcome",text:"Cloud AVD, with autoscale configured",option:"cloud",x:1250,y:330}

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