Microsoft's Linux server distribution is now available as an ISO to install on your own server or virtual machine.

Microsoft has a long history of turning its internal tools into products, especially as part of Azure. That’s not surprising: The company is building and running the same cloud-native applications as ...

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

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

Microsoft announced the general availability of hotpatching for Windows Server Azure Edition core virtual machines allowing admins to install Windows security updates on supported VMs without ...

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 ...

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 ...

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— Microsoft is using VMs powered by AMD Instinct MI300X and ROCm software to achieve leading price/performance for GPT workloads — “The AMD Instinct MI300X and ROCm software stack is powering the ...