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Your office desktop, anywhere.

Windows desktops as a service via Remote Desktop Services. Per-user, per-month, with Microsoft licensing fully included. Sign in from any device; data never leaves our hardware.

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What's included

The desktop, treated as a service.

When the desktop lives in our datacenter, the device on the user's lap stops being a security problem and becomes a screen. The work, the files, and the applications all stay on hardware we control and monitor, which is what makes the laptop disposable and the data safe at the same time.

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Per-user pricing

A predictable monthly rate per named user, added and removed on demand. No capital outlay on a hardware refresh cycle, no buying twelve laptops for a seasonal team you'll release in March. The cost tracks headcount instead of leading it.

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Windows + Microsoft 365 ready

A Windows Server 2025 desktop baseline with Microsoft 365 apps preinstalled and your M365 identity as the sign-in. Users get the familiar Office environment without anyone touching the local machine to install or update it.

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Device flexibility

Laptop, tablet, thin client, or a browser tab. The same desktop, the same files, and the same printer mappings appear every time, on whatever hardware the user has in front of them, at the office or at the kitchen table.

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Data stays put

Files live on our infrastructure, not on the endpoint. When a laptop is lost, stolen, or simply dies, the data isn't on it, so the incident is a hardware replacement rather than a breach notification and a frantic afternoon.

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Central control + patching

Applications, updates, and security baselines are managed in one place and apply to every user at once. No more chasing thirty laptops to confirm a patch landed; the desktop image is patched centrally and consistently.

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Backup + fast onboarding

The hosted profile is backed up centrally, and a new hire is productive in minutes: assign a user, hand them a sign-in, done. Pair it with secure backup for the recovery story underneath the whole environment.

Hosted desktops became the right answer when remote work stuck.

Most businesses bought a pile of laptops in 2020 and now own a fleet they can't easily refresh, can't audit consistently, and can't keep reliably current on patches. Every one of those machines is a small mobile copy of the company's data, riding around in cars and coffee shops, and securing them one at a time is a losing game. Hosted desktops invert the problem. The work moves back into a controlled environment, and the device on the user's lap is allowed to be anything, because nothing important lives on it.

That shift pays off three ways. Security improves, because the attack surface collapses from a sprawling laptop fleet to a managed environment we patch and monitor. Cost gets predictable, because Windows licensing is rolled into a per-user-per-month rate instead of a hardware purchase you depreciate. And IT gets simpler, because a new hire, a departing employee, or a stolen device is a few clicks rather than a logistics exercise. The endpoint still needs basic device management, but it stops being where your risk lives.

Our auditor stopped asking about the laptop fleet the day we moved to hosted desktops. The audit took half as long.
How it works

From scattered laptops to one managed desktop.

Moving to hosted desktops is a transition, not a flip of a switch. We do it in a sequence that proves the experience is right before anyone gives up their local machine.

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Profile

We inventory the applications people actually use, the performance they need, and the peripherals that have to work (printers, scanners, signature pads), so the hosted desktop matches the real job, not a generic image.

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Build

We stand up the desktop environment on our infrastructure, install and license the applications, wire it to your M365 identity, and harden the baseline. A pilot group tests it against their daily work first.

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Migrate

Files and profiles move to the hosted environment, printers and drive mappings get configured, and users are rolled over in waves so support can stay close to each group rather than fielding everyone at once.

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Operate

From there it's central patching, monitoring, and backup, plus same-day onboarding and offboarding. Adding or removing a user is an account change, not a hardware project, and the help desk supports it all.

Who it's for.

Hosted desktops fit businesses with a distributed or hybrid workforce, a security or compliance reason to keep data off endpoints, or a churn rate that makes buying and wiping laptops a constant chore. The classic cases: a practice or firm under HIPAA or similar rules that doesn't want patient or client data scattered across personal-feeling laptops, a company with seasonal or contract staff who come and go, a team that switched to remote work and never built the management muscle to secure thirty home machines, and any organization that wants a new hire productive on day one instead of day five. It also fits the business that simply wants to stop replacing laptops every three years and would rather pay a flat per-user rate for a desktop that's always current. It works hand in hand with virtual machines, which provide the compute the desktops run on, and Microsoft 365, which provides the identity and apps.

Questions

Common questions about hosted desktops.

What is a hosted desktop, exactly?

It's a full Windows desktop that runs on our infrastructure and streams to whatever device the user signs in from. They see a normal desktop with their files and Microsoft 365 apps, but the actual computing happens in our datacenter. The local laptop, tablet, or thin client is just a window into it, which is what keeps the data off the endpoint.

Is Microsoft and Windows licensing included?

Yes. Windows licensing is built into the per-user monthly rate, so there's no separate purchase and no licenses to true-up at audit time. Microsoft 365 apps come preinstalled on the desktop image, and users sign in with their existing M365 identity. You pay one predictable per-user figure instead of buying Windows and hardware outright.

What happens if an employee loses their laptop?

Nothing leaves with it. The files and applications live on our infrastructure, not the device, so a lost or stolen laptop is a hardware replacement, not a data breach. You disable the user's access, hand them any device that can sign in, and they're back to the exact same desktop in minutes. There's no local data to recover or report.

Can users work from home and the office both?

Yes, that's a core reason people adopt this. The same desktop, files, and printer mappings follow the user to any device with an internet connection. They get the identical environment at the office, at home, or on a borrowed machine while traveling. There's no syncing, no VPN gymnastics, and no second setup to keep in step with the first.

How fast can we add or remove users?

Minutes, not days. Onboarding a new hire is assigning them a user and a sign-in, with their apps and a clean desktop already in place. Offboarding is disabling the account, which immediately cuts access from every device at once. There's no laptop to image before someone starts or wipe after they leave, which is a real saving when headcount moves.

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