Desktop as a Service (DaaS) platforms deliver fully managed, cloud-hosted virtual desktops and published applications accessed from any endpoint — corporate laptop, BYOD device, tablet, thin client. Core capabilities include desktop and application image management, persistent and non-persistent session provisioning, GPU-accelerated desktops for design and engineering workloads, session brokering and load balancing, profile and user-state management, integration with the corporate identity provider, and pay-per-use or per-seat consumption pricing. DaaS is the managed-service evolution of legacy Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) — the hypervisor, compute, and control plane are delivered as a vendor-operated subscription rather than on-premises infrastructure the customer must run.