After years of battling Linux as a competitive threat, Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud service. The Linux services will go live on Azure at 4 a.m.

Microsoft is planning to launch new Windows Azure services designed for rolling out hybrid clouds, including those running Linux virtual machines. While the full picture will only emerge at an ...

Microsoft this week announced a preview of a "continuous release" software update branch for its Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows solution. Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows, dubbed "EFLOW" by ...

Links with Docker, work on Google's Kubernetes project, and its own use of Drawbridge all underline Microsoft's enthusiasm for containers, according to new Azure CTO Mark Russinovich. But despite ...

Microsoft this week announced a preview of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows, which lets organizations tap Linux virtual machine processes that also work with Windows- and Azure-based processes and ...

Linux enthusiasts might think the idea of running a Linux virtual machine on Microsoft's Azure service is like finding a penguin sun tanning in the Sahara. Linux in the heart of the Microsoft cloud?

This was the message from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, standing in front of an image that read “Microsoft [heart symbol] Linux,” during a Monday webcast to announce a number of services it had added ...

Microsoft has announced a bumper set of updates to its Azure cloud platform. The most significant of these is a new virtual machine role, allowing customers to deploy their own virtual machine images ...

Microsoft and Red Hat together announced that Red Hat’s software, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and the JBoss app server, will be fully supported on Azure. While Azure has hitherto been an ...