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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Excited to share that for the 3rd year, we’ve been named #Leader in Desktop as a Service (#DaaS) by the #Gartner®️ Magic #Quadrant™ for the third year running. ➡️ Read the full report to learn more why: www.gartner.com/doc/reprints...

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

What’s New in Windows 365 – August 2025 🌥️ 🔄 Recover Deprovisioned Cloud PCs (Preview) 🔒 Stronger Default Security for Cloud PCs To align with the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI). Learn more: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

🎂 Celebrating 4 Years of #Windows365! As 4 years ago, to be precise 8/2/2021 we launched the service in GA that reimagined the future of Windows with Windows 365, bringing the power of the cloud to the PC.

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Recharged after a short road trip break to Yellowstone 🦬 camping in the woods with my family, completely offline, reflecting last year, gaining new inspiration for product ideas, new #AI learnings and writings!

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Yesterday I was finally able to visit Paradise at Mount #Rainier when the skies during sunrise were clear. I have to admit, this is one of the most beautiful contrasting parts of the planet. The enormous size of the mountain behind the trail and roads is just mind blowing. #SkylineTrail

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Have you checked this amazing blog about #RDP #MultiPath - a recently released feature by Rinku Jayashree and team! Dieter our MVP from Belgium did a great job highlighting the highlights. Check it out via ⤵️ kempeneers.eu/2025/06/22/r... #LikeLocal

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🎉 💙 Big congratulations to all the renewed #Microsoft #MVPs 2025 - 2026 today! You all deserve it, the impact you have on our roadmap, product and customers are amazing! Greatful of your work for our #WindowsCloud products as Alumni — Keep up the amazing work. 👏👏 #CommunityPower

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

🎙️Stay tuned… Had a real pleasure having Pavan Davuluri, Corporate Vice President, #Windows + Devices in the Redmond studio again - after nearly two years. We talked about 50 year #Microsoft, how we moved from “A Computer in Every Desk..” to how #Windows #Cloud and #AI…

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🟦 Please join me in welcoming Dane Young, MBA, Aaron Parker, Challa Prabhu and Alan Hodson GAICD as our new Windows Cloud #Windows365 #AVD #MVPs. Congratulations and thank you for your leadership and contributions for our community. Megan Gremmell Martin Tatar Chauncey Larsen

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The way we interact with our computers is changing with #AI in #Windows. See here an example how #Copilot #Voice brings usability and accessibility to new levels you have not seen before. The future is very excited - as there is so much more potential here. www.computerworld.com/article/4007...

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🔥 ANNOUNCEMENTS! It's a #big #day for us as we introduce significant new features, #Windows365 Cloud Apps: #app #streaming, #Windows 365 #Reserve: and much more. Read more about all the announcements via ➡️ lnkd.in/gX7DExuE

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Did you know that #Windows365 Frontline supports scheduled reprovisioning of Cloud PCs? You can schedule them on a once, weekly or monthly cadance to keep the data fresh and your Cloud PC secure. More information ➡️ techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/...

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Excited to be delivering the opening keynote around Windows, Cloud & AI at Workplace Ninjas Norway 🇳🇴 tomorrow with my great colleague Bhavya Chopra. Looking forward having fun, meeting our customers & community to learn building a better product. See you there?!

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Cool stuff… Today we're taking the next leap with Bing Video Creator, allowing you to turn your ideas into videos, for free. Powered by #OpenAI’s #Sora video models, Bing Video Creator transforms your text prompts into short videos. blogs.bing.com/search/June-...

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Sometimes people ask me, how I recharge from work. This was earlier today, about 30 minutes from Redmond.

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

It was great to present at the first Windows Cloud Community Japan 🇯🇵 User Group last Friday. With over 60 IT professionals being excited about #Windows365 #AI and Windows 365 #Link is was a huge success. Interest in our products is expanding globally and our roadmap and vision is resonating.

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Excited to be delivering the keynote of Workplace Ninja’s UK next month together with Bhavya Chopra. It’s gonna be a fun story with learnings around Windows, Intune, Cloud and AI. 🎫 There are still tickets available that sell out soon. Go to aka.ms/UKNinja to secure your spot now!

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

👋 We arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰 to meet with #WindowsCloud customers and our amazing #community for the next couple days in our Microsoft Office ending at LEGOLAND for EUCtech Denmark. Tristan and I look forward seeing you!? #Windows365 #AVD #Link

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

📸 Memories… 3 of the most inspiring leaders at Microsoft in one frame, who have been instrumental in building the #endpoint #management and #virtualization #industry. From starting SMS, to ConfigMgr, to Intune to Windows 365. Exciting times ahead as we have a lot coming this year.

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

📱 One of our amazing Intune MVPs, Somesh Pathak [MVP] 🇳🇱 wrote a (native) mobile iOS app for IT Pros to #manage #Windows365 Cloud PCs using our RestAPIs. Well done! Blog with more information via ⤵️ intuneirl.com/zap365-your-... Download the app via ⤵️ lnkd.in/gQrB8Sr4

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Microsoft Teams VDI State of Union – Spring of 2025. Read about all the latest Teams on #Windows365 and #AVD improvements, including Windows 365 Link support. Great article Fernando Klurfan ➡️ techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso...

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🌍 Wanna learn how easy it is to move Cloud PCs from one region to the other—while the users data, apps everything moves too? Niall Brady got you covered in his latest blog. Thanks for your continued passion and knowledge sharing, Niall! ➡️ www.niallbrady.com/2025/05/08/m...

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

We just finished an very well received #MMSMOA presentation on “What’s new and next with Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop”.

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Are you at #MMSMOA this week and have any questions about #Windows365/#Intune? Make sure to stop by our Microsoft booth. Oh, and we have some exclusive swag too. Adam Gross Ken Goossens Shannon Fritz Adam Nichols Marvin Quinzon Midwest Management Summit @mmsmoa.bsky.social

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Please welcome me in also congratulating Balint Oberrauch as one our new Azure Virtual Desktop (#AVD) MVPs in May out of Austria 🇦🇹. Welcome and thanks you all you do. Looking forward seeing you at our engineering meetings soon! Megan Gremmell Martin Tatar Harjit Dhaliwal Chauncey Larsen

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

On my way to #MMS Midwest Management Summit . So much looking forward to share what we have been working on and collect product feedback. #Windows365 #AVD @mmsmoa.bsky.social

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🔥 DISCOUNT! Save 20% on #Windows365!! Now through October 31, 2025, your organization can save 20% on Windows 365. If Windows 10 end of support feels like it’s approaching too fast, I’ve got good news. ➡️ Want to learn more? Check out today’s announcement: aka.ms/SaveOnW365Blog

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🎉 Join me in congratulating these amazing community experts as we are welcoming 6 new #MVPs Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals to our #Windows365 and Azure Virtual Desktop #AVD group! We're looking forward to seeing you soon during our monthly engineering meetings!

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

What is an #AI agents? Agents are the smart brains 🧠 behind smarter as human, more autonomous workflows. If you’re building with LLMs, you’re building with agents — whether you know it yet or not. Also, you are in control, being more productive and effective as person!

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Our #W365 Cloud PC Point-in-time #restore #snapshot health indicator is now generally available (#GA). Read more via ➡️ techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

🎙️What’s next with Windows#intheCloud #Windows365? Take a sneak preview into how we evolve Windows to a Cloud & AI cloud-native OS delivered with the same familiar simple, and secure experiences loved by users and trusted by IT Microsoft Intune. @rds4u.bsky.social Full ➡️ youtu.be/WtgRlU5AYRc?...

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This new text extractor - snipping tool feature saved me a ton, next to using Copilot. It's now rolling out into Insiders Preview rings! Go check it out! ➡️ blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Exciting times ahead. Computer use is coming to Copilot Studio through an early access research preview. This new capability allows your Copilot Studio agents to treat websites and desktop applications as tools. Charles Lamanna www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Using #Windows #Autopilot device preparation with #Windows365Frontline shared cloud PCs. “we have a good option to ensure the #installation of #applications is done #before the #user #signs #in for the first time.” Great article by MVP Peter Klapwijk - inthecloud247.com/using-window...

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

🎙️Coming online soon: Join us for an insightful episode where we sit down with Jason Roszak, Vice President of Microsoft Intune, to discuss the latest advancements and strategic directions in Microsoft Intune, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and latest Windows 365 enhancements. Stay tuned.

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

♻️ We’re only a few months away from the Windows 10 End of Support deadline. By adopting #Windows365, you will have our ESU security updates included in it for free. Read more ⤵️ lnkd.in/g4KTaaha

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Considering Citrix and #Windows365? Citrix just released new reference architecture documents to help you on your journey towards Windows 365, Microsoft Intune etc. ⤵️ community.citrix.com/citrix-commu...

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

50 years Microsoft! “From a computer on every desk in every home to a computer in the #Cloud and #AI in every service”. Starting with the Altair 8800 the IBM PC to Windows 95 that introduced the start menu & task bar towards Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows and now #Windows365.

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

📖 Quick Start Guide - #Windows365 #Frontline Cloud PC in #sharedmode. “When a user signs in, a new user profile is created to facilitate their task, and upon sign-out, the user profile is deleted, preparing the device for the next user.” ⤵️ techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/...

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

⚙️Want to learn how to deploy #Windows365 Cloud PCs in under 4 minutes? Check this video, where I’m explaining the end to end steps in Microsoft Intune. ⏬ youtu.be/wZKp0V9BVLI?...

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Recharging in the mountains 🏔️ 🔋

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

📸 🟦 Last official day of #MVP Summit 2025. It’s been one of the most energizing I have seen. So much new features coming our community is excited about. Oh, and a successful event needs a memorable picture. Thanks everyone for your motivatio, engagements and feedback so far! #WindowsCloud #AVD #W365

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

📚 Greatful for Microsoft giving our community the opportunity to get their book added in the Microsoft #Redmond Library — supporting authoring w/ as example our 2nd edition Mastering #Windows365 laying their w/ friends Sandeep Patnaik and Morten Pedholt. ⤵️ aka.ms/MasteringW365

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

We’re are rolling on Microsoft Redmond Campus. #MVPSummit #WindowsMVPs

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Have you heard of #MCP already? Very excited about all the new innovations in #AI around Model Context Protocol (MCP) as the next wave of enhancing the functionality of AI, Agents together as one. See it as framework consolidation to make agentic AI easier and unified.

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Christiaan Brinkhoff @brinkhoffc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Safe travels to all the Microsoft #MVPs traveling to Redmond for MVP Summit next week! Looking forward seeing you all either physically or virtually attending. See you soon 👋 and have fun learning, networking and enjoy the Redmond area!

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