Microsoft's self-professed Linux love is helping the company in the cloud. During his keynote at DockerCon 2016 in Seattle today, Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich showed off some of the ...

Microsoft has announced that Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is now available as an Azure Virtual Machine through the Azure Marketplace. The announcement comes a few weeks after Canonical launched this version of ...

The AMD-based VMs use Azure Boost, Microsoft’s system for offloading infrastructure tasks from the host CPU to specialized ...

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It's been a long road, but Microsoft announced on April 4 a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines via its work with Ampere Computing. Ampere is a startup that makes server chips. Ampere ...

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 announced on Tuesday that its Azure Hybrid Benefit program for Linux, previously at preview, is now commercially available. Azure Hybrid Benefit is perhaps better known as a licensing perk ...

‘This is the start of the desktop in the cloud computing revolution,’ says IGEL Co-CEO Jed Ayres. ‘It’s the cloud equivalent of when Bill Gates said he wanted a PC on every desk and in every home. We ...