Microsoft's Linux server distribution is now available as an ISO to install on your own server or virtual machine.

Microsoft's Fedora-derived Azure Linux 4 has hit a new milestone: you can now run it outside of Azure. The project's GitHub page now offers ISO file downloads in addition to its A ...

Linux now powers much of Azure, and Microsoft maintains its own Linux distribution to support cloud infrastructure and ...

Microsoft is fundamentally updating its cloud distribution Azure Linux. Version 4.0 relies on a modern base and increased ...

Azure has been available since Feb. 1, 2010 and Microsoft has been promoting it as the cloud development platform for ISVs and partners. Some observers noted the irony that it took Microsoft more than ...

The success or failure of Windows Azure will be crucial toward Microsoft’s long term prospects in cloud computing. Microsoft may be “all in” for the cloud — but will developers follow? At the ...

Last week, CEO Steve Ballmer said Microsoft would be ready to go to market with Azure in for its Professional Developer Conference in November. But right now, Microsoft wants developers to focus on ...

Microsoft has extended Windows Server 2022 hotpatching into 2027, beyond the end of mainstream support for the operating system, as confirmed on its Windows Release Health dashboard. Mainstream ...

Microsoft this week announced that Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2, as managed using Azure Arc, reached the "general availability" ...