Over the past year, Microsoft has seen customers use Linux in a third of its Azure virtual machines, up from 25 percent. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor June 21, 2016, 10:32 a ...

Customers who want to run Windows or Linux 'durably' (i.e., without losing state) in VMs on Microsoft’s Azure platform-as-a-service platform will be able to do so," Foley wrote yesterday.

If your Linux machine in Azure has port 5986, 5985, or 1270 externally exposed, you need to update it as soon as possible. Written by Chris Duckett, Contributor Sept. 14, 2021, 6:44 p.m. PT Image ...

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.

Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows, dubbed "EFLOW" by Microsoft, is a way to use Linux virtual machine processes with Windows- and Azure-based processes for Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Windows Azure Virtual Machines are based on the virtual hard disk (VHD) open specification, and are designed to enable customers to move machine images and application workloads between on ...