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 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 ...

Microsoft is preparing to launch a new persistent virtual machine feature on its Azure cloud platform, enabling customers to host Linux, SharePoint and SQL Server there.

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

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.

Windows Azure Virtual Machines are based on the virtual hard disk (VHD) open specification, and are designed to enable customers to move machine images and application workloads between on ...