Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Bastion, a managed PaaS service designed to provide RDP and SSH access via a web browser to VMs on an Azure Virtual Network (VNet) without having to assign ...

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.

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 ...

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 is building more of these services. For example, Azure's Software Defined Network (SDN) is based on Linux." Why is everyone, including Microsoft, switching to Linux and open-source software?