The World of Windows

  Since Windows 365 first launched, we have received feedback from organizations about their desire for Windows 365 to meet the needs of their entire workforce. Windows 365 has been adopted by various types of organizations and employees - but not until now has it been able to also meet the needs of employees with graphics-intensive workloads. Today, we are excited to announce that Windows 365 GPU-enabled Cloud PCs are now in public preview. For graphic designers, video editors, 3D modelers, data analysts, or visualization specialists, Windows 365 now offers the GPU acceleration you need to be productive on the device of your choice and from wherever you work. Windows 365 keeps you up to date with the best available hardware in Microsoft Azure, decreasing the need to manage hardware lifecycles. Supported by NVIDIA and AMD, GPU-enabled Cloud PCs are intended to support customers with workloads that include graphic design, image and video rendering, 3D modelling, data process...

  Azure Boost is a revolutionary accelerator system designed by Microsoft that offloads server virtualization processes traditionally performed by the hypervisor and host OS onto purpose-built software and hardware. This offloading frees up CPU resources for virtual machines, resulting in improved performance and a secure foundation for your cloud workloads.  In this blog, we will talk about some of the advances we’ve made within Azure Host OS that allow us to provide the industry-leading benefits of Azure Boost and improve the security of our customers with other features.  Azure Host OS (aka Cloud Host ), if you recall, is a purpose-built minimal version of Windows that powers Azure in the data center. These Azure Host advancements in conjunction with Azure Boost have enabled features like Confidential VMs, Trusted Launch, to improve IO performance, harden security, and introduce VM compatibility for seamless feature delivery. These features are powered by a comp...