Hands-on Run real Windows in an automatically managed virtual machine, and mix Windows apps in their own windows on your Linux desktop. WinApps and WinBoat both deliver the same functionality: they ...

Microsoft once called Linux a “cancer.” Now, a bold and probably more humorous prediction published this week suggests the Windows maker will abandon its flagship operating system entirely and ship a ...

Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s annual “Inside Azure Innovations” presentations give us a look at cooling innovations, bare-metal servers, and better storage. As 2025 comes to an end, it seems fitting to ...

“The support we get from Microsoft is phenomenal, and I think the technology that’s available on Azure is state of the art.” Anuruddh Mishra, Founder and CEO, August AI August AI, an India-based AI ...

NOTE: This article was published yesterday (30/10/2025), but due to some technical issues it went offline. Microsoft has officially added Python 3.14 to Azure App Service for Linux. Developers can now ...

Running Linux in a virtual machine is very useful, you can test, tinker, break things, and restore snapshots without touching your main system. However, Virtual machines can be resource-hungry. They ...

In the world of modern CPUs, speculative execution, where a processor guesses ahead on branches and executes instructions before the actual code path is confirmed, has long been recognized as a ...

Microsoft is now publishing standard attestations about third-party CVEs through the Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) standard including vulnerabilities in embedded open-source software in ...

Microsoft is removing all Linux-based SQL Server VM images from the Azure Marketplace. The Redmond giant said these images will no longer be available in the Azure SQL hub, CLI, Azure Portal, or ...

Threat actors are attacking Azure Linux-based servers using a recently disclosed security flaw named OMIGOD in order to hijack vulnerable systems into DDoS or crypto-mining botnets. The attacks, which ...

Microsoft’s move to the cloud-native world means it’s now the custodian of several quite different Linux distributions. Some are internal tools that run deep parts of Azure’s networking infrastructure ...