Microsoft has announced that Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is now available in the Azure Marketplace so that you can use it in an Azure Virtual Machine. This version will be supported for up to 12 years.

Linux and Windows usually go-together like cats and dogs, but now four of the major Linux distributions - CentOS, openSUSE, SUSE Linux, and Ubuntu - are available on Microsoft's Azure cloud services.

It took longer than expected but Microsoft's first technical preview of its Azure Stack hybrid-cloud with Ubuntu Linux is almost ready for release.

The declaration of affection for Linux indicates a growing acceptance of software that wasn’t created at Microsoft, at least for the sake of making its Azure cloud platform as comprehensive as ...

A Linux kernel developer working with Microsoft has let slip that Linux-based operating systems have a larger presence on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform than Windows-based ones. The revelation ...

Microsoft Azure customers' virtual machines (VMs) running Ubuntu 18.04 have been taken offline by an ongoing outage caused by a faulty systemd update.

Microsoft has confirmed that an Ubuntu 18.04 update is causing connectivity problems for servers on its Azure cloud platform.

And in a blog entry this afternoon, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that Canonical is working with Microsoft to support the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution on the Azure platform.

Microsoft this week issued an alert noting that domain name system (DNS) problems are occurring for Azure customers who had upgraded Canonical Ubuntu on Azure virtual machines.

Apps4Rent brings a ready-to-use Docker Community Edition with Ubuntu Xenial, which is pre-installed on Ubuntu and powered by Microsoft Azure, to the M ...