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."The most valuable feature is the remote application access."
"The performance is one of the main features of this solution."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The solution is now stable."
"I like that it works. In most cases, it's predictable. You know what you get."
"Good screen draw feature and ability to use two monitors."
"It's largely stable."
"What I found most valuable in Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is accessibility because the solution lets you take control of your computer remotely."
"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."
"It's really easy to build testing environments with VMware Player."
"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."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services could improve by having a better application for managing multiple sessions. There used to be one but they stopped supporting it."
"Lacks a notification feature when internet is down."
"Sometimes the server stops working, and we don’t know why. Occasionally we’ll get a message to the effect of "There is no remote license.""
"In a future release, they could improve by providing more advanced technology and better buffering for if the connection is degraded or lost."
"Security in the connection between us and our clients' servers is something that can be improved."
"From the perspective of an IT professional, Microsoft Remote Desktop is very easy to use. However, it could be made easier to use for the end user, especially when it comes to activating it."
"For Microsoft, maybe bandwidth optimization is one of the areas that need improvement."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is only available for the professional version of the Windows operating system. This restricts a lot of users. The feature should be available for all versions."
"When you go to work on a server, it opens up the whole window, and that causes an error inside VMware Player."
"VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround."
"Its networking features need improvement."
"VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources."
"The tool has limited scalability."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 69 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, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace 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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