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 ...

Microsoft is preparing an expansion of the Windows Azure virtual machine hosting technology that will let customers run either Windows or Linux virtual machines, as well as applications like SQL ...

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 ...

Recently exposed Azure Linux vulnerabilities leave users vulnerable to having their Azure environments infiltrated by attackers. These bugs, dubbed OMIGOD (a reference to the Open Management ...

Microsoft is spoiling its own party. Even though Microsoft was expected to deliver updates to its increasingly popular Windows Azure cloud platform at a webcast event tomorrow, the wizards at Redmond ...

A report published Monday by longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley cited several sources who said customers of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform will be able to run Linux servers on the ...