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

The OMI agent is automatically deployed inside Linux virtual machines (VM) when users enable certain Azure services, the researchers point out.

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

Microsoft’s SSL connections to Azure make it easier to manage Windows and Linux 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.

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

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.

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.

Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows, also known as EFLOW. With EFLOW, customers run production Linux-based cloud-native workloads on Windows IoT.