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.

Would you believe Microsoft has announced a new Linux distribution service for its Azure cloud service? You should. For many years, the most popular operating system on Azure has not been Windows ...

Ratnangi Nirek, a seasoned technical professional focused on Linux-on-Azure reliability. Nirek oversees complex deliverables ...

Microsoft and the Linux Foundation have teamed up to offer a certification for managing Linux systems in the Azure cloud In a partnership that would have seemed most unlikely back when Microsoft ...

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 recently announced the general availability of Azure Linux container host for AKS. Available on GitHub under the CBL-Mariner project codename, the lightweight Linux distribution includes ...

This was the message from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, standing in front of an image that read “Microsoft [heart symbol] Linux,” during a Monday webcast to announce a number of services it had added ...

I don't think there will be any "crap it up" here. Microsoft makes money with Azure whether you use Windows or Linux or FreeBSD. Microsoft has made substantial investment to make all of the above play ...