Over the past year, Microsoft has seen customers use Linux in a third of its Azure virtual machines, up from 25 percent.

Microsoft to take the wraps off 'Antares' hosting, Linux VM for Windows Azure Microsoft is expected to announce some of its promised 'spring update' features for Windows Azure during a June 7 event.

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.

Microsoft announced Azure Active Directory management enhancements for the Azure AD Conditional Access service, as well as authentication perks for managing Azure virtual machines.

Microsoft boasted of its Azure datacenter support for open source software this week, while also announcing that Red Hat Enterprise Linux images are now available from the Azure Marketplace.

Azure’s Ampere Altra Arm-based virtual machines represent a cost-effective and power-efficient option that does not compromise the level of performance that customers require.

Microsoft is now selling Red Hat Enterprise Linux licenses. Starting today, you will be able to deploy Red Hat Linux Enterprise (RHLE) from the Azure Marketplace and get support for your ...

Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows, also known as EFLOW. With EFLOW, customers run production Linux-based cloud-native workloads on Windows IoT.

Microsoft has made Windows Azure IaaS and open-source friendly by adding support for Linux-based OS and added languages such as Python and PHP.