Still on legacy VDI in 2026, with a renewal decision creeping up? You're not alone, and you're probably staring at a spreadsheet from two years ago, an architecture diagram nobody owns anymore, and two cost estimates that don't even agree with each other.

This first EUC News Nugget is your seven-minute orientation to Nerdio Compass, the new discovery layer that measures what your legacy VDI actually is today, before anyone argues about where it should be tomorrow. Private preview launched at NerdioCon on May 5, Citrix support first (Virtual Apps and Desktops, plus Citrix DaaS), with Intune, AVD, Omnissa Horizon, and Amazon WorkSpaces on the roadmap.

No vendor pitch. No abstract cloud talk. Just the map. What Compass actually measures across four dimensions, how it scores every delivery group from zero to a hundred against five Windows Cloud destinations side by side, and what happens when a 1,400-user European insurance carrier points it at their three-site estate eight months before renewal.

You'll walk away with a working sense of why Compass isn't another dashboard, what the hundred-point readiness scale actually triages, how the five Windows Cloud paths get scored (AVD Desktops, AVD RemoteApps, Windows 365, Windows 365 Enterprise mapping, and Windows 365 Cloud Apps), and why moving from gut-feel estimates to measured baselines is the only honest place to start a migration plan.

Eight pages compressed into around seven minutes.

📄 Prefer to read it, or want something to keep? This episode has a companion PDF, same content, same takeaways, on the Microlearning Library at www.eucnewsnuggets.com

Look for Nerdio Compass.

Short listens. Sharp takes. No fluff.

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