More than a third of virtual machines running on Azure are Linux VMs. Here's what's available.

After years of battling Linux as a competitive threat, Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud service.

Users running Linux on Microsoft Azure have now outpaced the number of users running Windows Server on Azure. The revelation comes from a Microsoft Linux kernel developer named Sasha Levin.

Linux on Microsoft turf To be specific, the consequence of this wider trend now sees the The Linux Foundation announce the availability of a new training course, Administering Linux on Azure.

These users put their VMs at risk when they use certain Azure services such as Azure Automation, Azure Automatic Update, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Configuration Management, and others.

Microsoft doesn’t just love running Linux workloads on the Azure cloud. It is running Linux workloads to make the Azure cloud. Specifically, Microsoft has created its own variant of Linux to run on ...

Microsoft announced a preview of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows, which lets organizations tap Linux virtual machine processes that also work with Windows- and Azure-based processes and services.