Microsoft is building more of these services. For example, Azure's Software Defined Network (SDN) is based on Linux." Why is everyone, including Microsoft, switching to Linux and open-source software?

More than a third of virtual machines running on Azure are Linux VMs. Here's what's available.

Microsoft announced Azure VM Image Builder has reached general availability, providing a managed service that reduces the complexity of manually creating virtual machines images -- with associated ...

Microsoft has new guidance for those put at risk by recent Azure vulnerabilities. That guidance involves asking users to do the patching themselves.

Microsoft is preparing an expansion of the Windows Azure virtual machine hosting technology that will let customers run either Windows or Linux virtual machines, as well as applications like SQL ...

Earlier today, Microsoft's developer account posted a tweet revealing that 40 percent of the virtual machines hosted on the company's Azure cloud platform are powered by Linux distros.

Microsoft has revealed its Azure Linux is finally available, more than half a year after entering its final public preview stages under the codename CBL-Mariner, as a container host for Azure ...