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 ...

Microsoft has increased its commitment to open-source technologies recently and has a wide variety of Linux virtual machines (VMs) available for Azure users to deploy. In September, the company ...

Microsoft released a preview on Monday of a new Serial Console command-line tool that's designed to help recover Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) running on Azure infrastructure. The Serial ...

Microsoft today is announcing new capabilities for running applications in containers — an alternative to more traditional virtual machines — both on its Azure public cloud and in companies’ ...

Microsoft will soon release a preliminary version of Azure Service Fabric for Linux, a free offering that brings to Linux the microservices-development abilities that have been available for Windows ...

Microsoft is willing to open up support and match Amazon on price, but can Windows Azure make inroads in IaaS market? Competition in the cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market ratcheted up a ...

On June 7th, Microsoft is holding a “Meet Windows Azure” event, which promises an update on the future of the platform-as-a-service cloud. Microsoft’s keeping mum on what we can expect, but rumor has ...