Microsoft is peeling back the covers, at long last, of its Windows Azure spring update, with new Linux VM and hosting framework support.

Corey Sanders, Microsoft's director of Azure Compute, told me at Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., one in three Azure virtual machines (VM) run on Linux.

IT administrators overseeing certain Microsoft Azure Linux virtual machines are being urged to make sure patches are installed after the discovery of four zero-day vulnerabilities that could allow ...

A Linux kernel developer working with Microsoft has let slip that Linux-based operating systems have a larger presence on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform than Windows-based ones. The revelation ...

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 now has its own Linux distribution for use on Azure, featuring a descriptive, unexciting name.

The declaration of affection for Linux indicates a growing acceptance of software that wasn’t created at Microsoft, at least for the sake of making its Azure cloud platform as comprehensive as ...

Microsoft “loves Linux” as it makes Azure bigger, better 11 million servers, new giant VMs, and more third-party app support.