Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop, WVD) is not Hyper-V or a rehabilitated version Windows Virtual PC. It doesn’t even install on your local machine like VMware Workstation or VMplayer. Rather, AVD lets you deploy and scale virtualized Windows desktops and apps on Azure Windows Virtual Desktops. This desktop and application virtualization service runs in the Azure cloud. AVD is an Enterprise-scale solution that generally covers 1,000 virtual desktops and above.