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 ...

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

A report published Monday cited several sources who said customers of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform will be able to run Linux servers on the service starting this spring.

How to create and deploy a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure Your email has been sent One of the primary functions of cloud computing services like Microsoft Azure is the creation, deployment ...

Photo by crypto, via Flickr. FreeBSD, a popular open-source Unix operating system with roots stretching back to the 1970s, is now available through the Azure Marketplace as a virtual-machine image ...