Microsoft Open Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, just announced the launch of VM Depot, "a community-driven catalog of open source virtual machine images for Windows Azure ...

Microsoft is expected to announce some of its promised 'spring update' features for Windows Azure during a June 7 event.

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 is preparing to launch a new persistent virtual machine feature on its Azure cloud platform, enabling customers to host Linux, SharePoint and SQL Server there.

Docker and Microsoft are working together to make Linux containers available on both Windows and the Azure cloud.

Microsoft announced a preview of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows, which lets organizations tap Linux virtual machine processes that also work with Windows- and Azure-based processes and services.

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.