Microsoft has added EfficientEther to its official Windows 365 partners page on Microsoft Learn, alongside eight vendors listed alphabetically: Citrix, ControlUp, EfficientEther, Hydra by Login VSI, IGEL, Nerdio, Omnissa, and WorkspaceDNA. It follows EtherApps Forge joining Microsoft Marketplace earlier this month. It also reflects Microsoft's own description of how EtherInsights, EtherAssist, and EtherApps Forge work together across a Windows 365 estate.
What this means for you
Microsoft's scope statement for the partners page is explicit: "The partners listed on this page are independent software vendors (ISVs) and hardware vendors whose products have documented compatibility with Windows 365." Managed service providers, system integrators, deployment partners, and resellers are routed to a separate Partner Finder instead. This listing places EtherInsights, EtherAssist, and EtherApps Forge specifically as documented, compatible ISV tooling for the Windows 365 platform.
In practice, that gives you an independent way to check how our products fit your Windows 365 estate. That check is taken directly from Microsoft's own documentation rather than from a case study or testimonial we published ourselves.
How Microsoft describes EfficientEther
Microsoft's entry for EfficientEther reads:
"EfficientEther helps organizations plan, optimize, deploy, and manage Windows 365 Cloud PCs through enhanced visibility, governance, AI-driven analysis, automation, and application readiness. Its solutions provide intelligent insights for cost optimization, migration planning, operational improvement, and service delivery, while reducing deployment blockers through modern application packaging and readiness workflows."
That paragraph covers all three products in the EfficientEther portfolio, and Microsoft names each one directly.
EtherInsights is our management platform for Microsoft 365, Azure, and Windows 365. Its Windows 365 capabilities support the full Cloud PC lifecycle, from planning and assessment through deployment to day-two management and control. This applies whether you are an end customer managing your own Cloud PC estate directly or an MSP overseeing that same lifecycle across multiple tenants. That range lines up with the visibility, governance, and cost optimisation Microsoft describes above. EtherAssist covers the AI-driven operations and automation side of that same estate, including ITSM and compliance support. EtherApps Forge handles application assessment, capture, and packaging modernisation aimed at Windows 365, with a focus on MSIX, App Attach, and MSI or IntuneWin outputs. It is now discoverable in the same Microsoft Marketplace listing as EtherInsights and EtherAssist.
Microsoft also frames who the listing is best suited for: organisations optimising Microsoft cloud desktop operations or migrating from legacy VDI to Windows 365, and MSPs and IT services teams needing unified reporting and scalable Cloud PC deployment across tenants. That maps closely to the two audiences we already build for. The partners page also links directly from EfficientEther's entry to our Marketplace listings. This means a reader on Microsoft Learn can move straight from Microsoft's description into the product listing without leaving Microsoft's own ecosystem.
Building on the Windows 365 platform
This listing reflects where EtherInsights, EtherAssist, and EtherApps Forge already are, not where our work on Windows 365 stops. We continue to develop each product specifically for the platform. That means extending EtherInsights' Cloud PC reporting and cost controls, deepening EtherAssist's automation for day-two operations, and broadening EtherApps Forge's packaging coverage for MSIX and App Attach. Building within Microsoft's documented compatibility requirements keeps that roadmap aligned with how Windows 365 itself develops, rather than adapted after the fact.
Working with EfficientEther on Windows 365
If you are planning, running, or migrating a Windows 365 and Cloud PC estate, this listing matters. It means EtherInsights, EtherAssist, and EtherApps Forge are documented, Microsoft-compatible tooling for that estate from day one. If you are moving off legacy VDI or Azure Virtual Desktop specifically, our Windows 365 migration work is one of the two use cases Microsoft calls out directly.
MSPs and IT services teams are the other named audience. If you manage Cloud PC deployment and reporting across multiple tenants, Microsoft 365 for MSPs is where that fits inside our own solution set. It uses the same unified reporting and scalable multi-tenant deployment approach Microsoft describes on its own page.
You can still reach every product the same way you always could: EtherInsights and EtherAssist through their Marketplace listings, and EtherApps Forge through its own free trial at etherapps.ai. What has changed is that you now have an independent reference point for how they fit Windows 365, alongside what we tell you ourselves.
See how EtherInsights fits your Windows 365 and Cloud PC estate, or read Microsoft's full partner listing directly on Windows 365 partners | Microsoft Learn.