Using Azure's 'virtual machine agent,' you can reset the local administrator password without even hitting the Windows OS itself. Here's how.

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 ...

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 virtual machine users: Be prepared, as there are less than three months before Microsoft fundamentally changes how VMs connect to the Internet, with default outbound access set to be retired ...

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.

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 ...