Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, finally met in person at a friendly dinner.

He said that "in the context of Azure, Microsoft makes more money if you have 10 installations of Linux than if you have two instances of Windows." Linux represented about 20 percent of the virtual ...

Microsoft and IBM earlier this month announced the 'availability' of IBM WebSphere Application Server on Azure Linux-based virtual machines.

Microsoft has announced a bumper set of updates to its Azure cloud platform. The most significant of these is a new virtual machine role, allowing customers to deploy their own virtual machine ...

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.

Through the new partnership, Azure customers will also be able to take advantage of Red Hat’s application platform, including the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Web Server and ...

Microsoft has launched the Azure Sphere Research Challenge, offering approved security researchers individual rewards of up to $100,000 for dangerous exploits that break the security of Azure ...