In addition to Hadoop, Azure also now incorporates a number of other open-source technologies as well. With the Node.js library, developers can create Web applications that will run from an Azure ...

A majority of Azure Marketplace workloads are Linux-based, which is an interesting position for Microsoft’s cloud platform, considering the company’s previously dim view of the open source OS.

The project is being spun out of the Microsoft Azure Incubation team, the same group that previously launched open source projects like Dapr for building microservices, the KEDA event-driven ...

Bringing Llama and Mistral to Azure But at Ignite over the last two days, Microsoft also made more important moves to bolster its support for rival open source AI models from the likes of Facebook ...

Microsoft contributed Azure RTOS, including real-time OS ThreadX, to the Eclipse Foundation and made it available under the MIT license. While ThreadX is likely not the best-known OS out there, it ...

The cost of a commercial RTOS, especially a safety-certified one, can be price-inhibitive for embedded teams. It is not uncommon for a certified RTOS to cost tens, if not upwards of a hundred thousand ...

Last time I checked, in 2024, Azure Linux Platforms Group Program Manager Jack Aboutboul told me that 60% of Azure Marketplace offerings and more than 60% of virtual machine cores use Linux.

Microsoft hosts 1,600 open source and proprietary models from companies and organisations such as Meta, Nvidia, Deci and Hugging Face. Models from Cohere and G42 are also planned.