Over the past year, Microsoft has seen customers use Linux in a third of its Azure virtual machines, up from 25 percent.

Microsoft announced Azure Active Directory management enhancements for the Azure AD Conditional Access service, as well as authentication perks for managing Azure virtual machines.

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.

Retrieve a simple Spring Boot Java App from GitHub Connect it to the Azure Database for MySQL Service Set up a Linux VM running WildFly on Microsoft Azure Deploy the sample app to the WildFly server.

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 makes a number of storage-related moves, including unveiling Azure VMs that offer brisk, low-latency performance for storage-intensive workloads.

Development used to be done on "a full-fledged CentOS desktop VM with a window manager" – but Azure Linux doesn't have a GUI or any kind of desktop, and they haven't added one.

Microsoft boasted of its Azure datacenter support for open source software this week, while also announcing that Red Hat Enterprise Linux images are now available from the Azure Marketplace.

The discovery of serious vulnerabilities in Azure's Cosmos database and Linux VM shows you can't take cloud security for granted. Here's how to reduce the risk from current and future vulnerabilities.