In the past year, customers and developers testing Windows Azure have been running primarily brand-new (and largely Web 2.0 style) apps on Microsoft's cloud operating system. But when will Azure ...

Sure, the Azure operating system would be built on top of Windows Server. But the Azure services platform would include support for non-Microsoft development tools and platforms, the Softies ...

It's now a little easier to deploy open source software to Microsoft's cloud-based Windows Azure operating system.

A Microsoft engineer says that use the popular open source Linux operating system has now overtaken Windows on its own Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

Azure Sphere is powered in large part by Linux, a free operating system that Microsoft once viewed as a major threat. It's the first time that Microsoft has made Linux part of a product offering.

Today, the company launched a public beta of its Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) on Microsoft Azure and Amazon's AWS cloud.

Microsoft plans to announce next month more of the business details behind its Windows Azure operating system. The software maker unveiled the cloud-based operating system at a developer ...