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?

Microsoft's self-professed Linux love is helping the company in the cloud. During his keynote at DockerCon 2016 in Seattle today, Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich showed off some of the ...

IT administrators overseeing certain Microsoft Azure Linux virtual machines are being urged to make sure patches are installed after the discovery of four zero-day vulnerabilities that could allow ...

Microsoft has increased its commitment to open-source technologies recently and has a wide variety of Linux virtual machines (VMs) available for Azure users to deploy. In September, the company ...

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 boasted of its Azure datacenter support for open source software this week, while also announcing that Red Hat Enterprise Linux images are now available from the Azure Marketplace. In ...

Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud-based platform will soon allow users to operate a new persistent virtual machine feature. ZDNet.com reports via unnamed sources that this new feature will be tested in ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced Azure Active Directory management enhancements for the Azure AD Conditional Access service, as well as authentication perks for managing Azure virtual machines (VMs).

Microsoft released a preview on Monday of a new Serial Console command-line tool that's designed to help recover Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) running on Azure infrastructure. The Serial ...

June 7, 2012: That's the day Microsoft is expected to disclose a number of the latest features it is adding to its Windows Azure cloud platform. Likely to be on the disclosure docket are "Antares," ...