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 ...

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 ...