If you still think Microsoft is all about Windows, wake up. Corey Sanders, Microsoft's director of Azure Compute, told me at Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., one in three Azure virtual ...

`` Azure Linux '', which was once developed as Microsoft's internal Linux distribution, has finally been officially released after the public preview from October 2022. Azure Linux is optimized for ...

Azure Stack is a technology stack that customers can run in their own datacenters. It's meant to encourage businesses who can't, or won't, move to the public cloud to still get some of the cloud's ...

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The Linux Enterprise Server 15 kernel for Microsoft Azure comes a month after the Linux Enterprise 15 operating system was first made available, and offers customers using Azure faster boot speeds and ...

Microsoft has just announced the availability of Azure Linux 3.0 for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which is now available as a preview on AKS version 1.31. Azure Linux 3.0 was made generally ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

After years of battling Linux as a competitive threat, Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud service. The Linux services will go live on Azure at 4 a.m.