Once described by the shy and retiring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer as “cancer” Linux is now the most widely used operating system on Microsoft Azure. According to a talk earlier this year at the Linux ...

LOS ANGELES — Claiming to set the stage for the next 50 years of computing, Microsoft this week unveiled a cloud operating system and a complementary slate of developer resources that will become the ...

has this week unveiled a new Internet of things operating system that uses a custom Linux kernel takes the form of the Azure Sphere. The new operating system has been specifically designed to provide ...

In the past year, customers and developers testing Windows Azure have been running primarily brand-new (and largely Web 2.0 style) apps on Microsoft's cloud operating system. But when will Azure be ...

One of Microsoft's key promises for Azure, its cloud computing platform, was that it wouldn't be a Windows/.Net-only affair. Sure, the Azure operating system would be built on top of Windows Server.

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Microsoft on Monday announced Azure Sphere, a new technology designed to protect the processors that power smart appliances, connected toys, and other gadgets. Azure Sphere is powered in large part by ...