Microsoft Open Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, just announced the launch of VM Depot, “a community-driven catalog of open source virtual machine images for Windows Azure.” Azure, ...

With its cross-platform charter expanding, Microsoft is making nice with its competitors -- though sometimes in rather circuitous ways. Take, for instance, what's happening in the virtualization space ...

Microsoft this month announced a preview of the ability to log into a Linux-based virtual machine (VM) running on its Azure public cloud service using Azure Active Directory credentials. It's ...