There are 13 virtual machine configurations available. The most basic (two cores, 4GB of memory and 64GB of storage) costs $28 per user per month; the most advanced (16 cores, 64GB RAM and 1TB of storage space) is $315 per user per month — that amounts to a hefty $3,780 each year. That’s for Windows 365 Enterprise;Windows 365 Business customers pay an additional $4 per user a month for each SKU, in comparison. There is, however, a discount when Windows 365 is accessed via a device that runs Windows 11 Pro or Windows 10 Pro, however; it lowers the cost by $4 a user each month.
As of August 2024, access to Windows 365 machines with GPUs is now available. There are three configuration options, from Standard, for basic graphics workloads, to Max, for the most demanding uses. GPU pricing hasn’t been made public yet, however.
So we continue to pay for, say, Microsoft 365 E3 licenses and for Windows 365? Isn’t that double billing?
