{"id":259660,"date":"2026-05-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/i-tried-microsofts-windows-365-cloud-pc-on-macos-android-and-ios-heres-what-its-like\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:05:12","slug":"i-tried-microsofts-windows-365-cloud-pc-on-macos-android-and-ios-heres-what-its-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/i-tried-microsofts-windows-365-cloud-pc-on-macos-android-and-ios-heres-what-its-like\/","title":{"rendered":"I tried Microsoft&#8217;s Windows 365 Cloud PC on MacOS, Android, and iOS &#8211; here&#8217;s what it&#8217;s like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/home-and-office\/work-life\/windows-365-cloud-pc-hands-on\/\">I tried Microsoft&#8217;s Windows 365 Cloud PC on MacOS, Android, and iOS &#8211; here&#8217;s what it&#8217;s like<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/home-and-office\/work-life\/windows-365-cloud-pc-hands-on\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/home-and-office\/work-life\/windows-365-cloud-pc-hands-on\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-30 08:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Ed Bott\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET:\u00a0<span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span>\u00a0on Google.<\/p>\n<h3>ZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Windows 365 Cloud PC lets you use Windows 11 on any device &#8211; PC, Mac, iPad, or phone.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a subscription-based service, and the costs are still relatively high.<\/li>\n<li>The biggest benefit: no worries about repairing and replacing hardware.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My newest PC is the thinnest and lightest I&#8217;ve ever had. It&#8217;s literally a pixel thick, it weighs absolutely nothing, and it&#8217;s powerful enough to get me through a full day&#8217;s work without ever needing a recharge.<\/p>\n<p>I am talking, of course, about my new <span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Windows 365 Cloud PC<\/span><\/span>. It&#8217;s a subscription-based service that Microsoft is currently offering for 20% off, and I&#8217;m halfway through my one-month trial. I&#8217;ve been running my Cloud PC on every device I can get my hands on, including multiple PCs, a MacBook, a five-year-old iPad, and even a Samsung phone. Here it is, running in a Google Chrome tab on a Windows PC.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"windows365-in-chrome-window\" width=\"1280\" height=\"784.4686961516369\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>This Windows 365 Cloud PC is running in a tab in my Google Chrome browser.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Screenshot by Ed Bott\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Who needs a Cloud PC, anyway? What&#8217;s the experience like? How much does it cost? And, most importantly, is that monthly fee worth it? I&#8217;ve got your answers right here.<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s a Cloud PC?<\/h2>\n<p>A Windows 365 Cloud PC is a Windows machine that&#8217;s hosted in Microsoft&#8217;s data centers. Unlike the older Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365 is a fixed, per-user virtual PC that is equipped with dedicated resources (CPU, memory, storage) and runs Windows 11 Enterprise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: My new favorite Windows app made my PC safer and more reliable &#8211; and it&#8217;s free<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Cloud PC I&#8217;m using for this test includes 2 virtual CPUs, 8 GB of RAM, and 128 GB of storage. I can connect to the PC through any web browser, or I can use the dedicated Windows app, which is available for Windows, MacOS, Android, and iOS.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"windows365-app-sign-in\" width=\"1280\" height=\"791.0961214165262\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>The Windows App (formally known as Remote Desktop) can use Windows Hello to connect to a virtual PC in the cloud.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Screenshot by Ed Bott\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sign in to the app using your&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/home-and-office\/work-life\/windows-365-cloud-pc-hands-on\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried Microsoft&#8217;s Windows 365 Cloud PC on MacOS, Android, and iOS &#8211; here&#8217;s what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/d0b7b56b3dedf725ad5bc220f2a20c84e8d09f3b\/2026\/05\/29\/727e437d-87af-4c1f-9c17-2c26317cd8d0\/windows365-business-hero.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72,86],"class_list":["post-259660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259662,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259660\/revisions\/259662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}