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. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior ...

He also praised the Azure team, saying that they possess a "sophisticated understanding of Ubuntu and Linux in general." Canonical and Microsoft have had little interaction in the past.

Apps4Rent's Azure solution for Docker Community Edition on Ubuntu Xenial is here. Post this Docker is a containerization platform packaging together all the applications along with its peripherals ...

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.

About 20 percent of the workloads run on Azure are based on Linux, Nadella admitted. Now, the company considers its newest competitors to be the cloud services offered by Amazon and Google.