Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's own Fedora-derived Linux distro for Azure cloud workloads. Here is how it compares to Ubuntu, ...

You'll be able to run this Linux distro on both Azure and your desktop using Windows Subsystem for Linux. Here's what we know about it so far.

A minimal Linux distro from Microsoft? Anything is possible.

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

Microsoft continues its big Linux push at Build 2026 ...

The first Secure Boot certificates are expiring these days. Microsoft is providing further guidance for Linux on Azure VMs.

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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 ...

With virtual computing solutions targeting a variety of workloads such as enterprise applications, visualization, and machine learning, Microsoft has announced updates to its Azure VM solutions. At ...

Microsoft has added Azure management capabilities to Azure Arc-enabled System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), per a Friday announcement. Azure Arc-enabled SCVMM is currently at the preview ...

Last month, Microsoft introduced a number of security enhancements for Azure, and also unveiled reserved capacity offerings for six more Azure services. Today, the tech giant has announced the preview ...

Following a preview in April, Microsoft this morning announced the general availability of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture. The ...