The newly named Azure Linux Container host is a barebone Linux distribution completely made in-house by Microsoft and is specialized for use on Azure. Key points are lightweight, secure, and reliable.

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 ...

Corey Sanders, Microsoft's director of Azure Compute, told me at Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., one in three Azure virtual machines (VM) run on Linux.

Microsoft “loves Linux” as it makes Azure bigger, better 11 million servers, new giant VMs, and more third-party app support. Ars Staff – Oct 20, 2014 6:00 PM | 150 Credit: Microsoft ...