Windows virtual pc for ipad how to#
This blog will show you how to setup and configure the following in Azure and on your iPad (or a PC, Mac or Android table) to compute anywhere using Azure: Next, read the rest of this blog post to setup an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) and configure it for use with your iPad … or any other device that support RDP or just has a browser (we can use Azure Bastion to connect via a browser … but at a small cost that we will discuss later). Read this article from 9to5 Mac, How to use mouse with iPad, to learn how to setup your mouse with you iPad. Enter iPadOS 13! With iPadOS 13 you can now use a Bluetooth mouse (like the Surface Arc Mouse, the one I use!) with your iPad. However, that was not an ideal solution as you really need a mouse to work well on Windows and the iPad does not support a mouse … or at least it USED to not support a mouse.
The solution was simple I thought … use an Azure Virtual Machine and the Remote Desktop (RDP) app from Microsoft on my iPad. The problem was that I often needed a Windows O/S “machine” to complete task like code Python in VS Code or remote into my office computer. I really wanted to JUST carry my iPad around at conferences.