Microsoft is preparing to let customers run the Linux operating system within a virtual machine on Windows Azure, sources have told ZDNet UK's sister site ZDNet.com.

Microsoft Open Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, just announced the launch of VM Depot, “a community-driven catalog of open source virtual machine images for Windows Azure ...

More than a third of virtual machines running on Azure are Linux VMs. Here's what's available. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor June 29, 2017 at 5:09 a.m. PT ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas — At the Dockercon 2017 conference today Docker and Microsoft revealed they are working together to make Linux containers available on both Windows and the Azure cloud. Using a new ...