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's been a long road, but Microsoft announced on April 4 a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines via its work with Ampere Computing. Ampere is a startup that makes server chips. Ampere ...

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Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform has been given a major update that will offer deep support to Linux-based developers, the company announced today in a blog post. The update will bring Windows Azure ...

Microsoft will soon release a preliminary version of Azure Service Fabric for Linux, a free offering that brings to Linux the microservices-development abilities that have been available for Windows ...

One of the best decisions Microsoft ever made for Azure was to open it up to other operating systems, particularly Linux. That move helped jump-start Azure's growth. And now, Microsoft will be giving ...

Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its Azure Hybrid Benefit program for Linux, previously at preview, is now commercially available. Azure Hybrid Benefit is perhaps better known as a licensing perk ...

Cloud computing has transformed the way businesses and individuals store, manage, and process data. At its core, cloud computing refers to the on-demand availability of computing resources—such as ...

Microsoft on Friday announced Azure Virtual Desktop support for virtual machines with "Trusted Launch" protections. Trusted Launch support for Azure virtual machines actually reached the "general ...