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 ...

If you still think Microsoft is all about Windows, wake up. Corey Sanders, Microsoft's director of Azure Compute, told me at Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., one in three Azure virtual ...

After years of battling Linux as a competitive threat, Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud service. The Linux services will go live on Azure at 4 a.m.

Users running Linux on Microsoft Azure have now outpaced the number of users running Windows Server on Azure. The revelation comes from a Microsoft Linux kernel developer named Sasha Levin. Levin made ...

Linux, known for its robustness and flexibility, has been a favorite among developers, system administrators, and technology enthusiasts. One of the pillars of Linux's capabilities is its inherent ...

Linux usage on Microsoft Azure cloud has now surpassed Windows usage, according to Microsoft Linux kernel developer Sasha Levin, demonstrating how far the open source OS has come since former ...

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 ...

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Microsoft Corp. has bought Kinvolk GmbH, the Berlin-based startup behind a specialized Linux distribution used to power software container environments on Azure and other public clouds. The technology ...

What happens when you run a Linux command? This simple act can appear straightforward, but many different things can actually occur, depending on whether you’re running an executable program, a shell ...

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