Microsoft has posted Azure Linux 4 ISO downloads on GitHub, adding a local test path while the Fedora-derived preview stays Azure-focused and evaluation-only.

Microsoft's Linux server distribution is now available as an ISO to install on your own server or virtual machine.

After being announced at Build 2026, Microsoft has made WSL containers available in public preview.

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's own Fedora-derived Linux distro for Azure cloud workloads. Here is how it compares to Ubuntu, ...

Microsoft has announced Coreutils, a new Windows 11 feature that allows developers to run many popular Linux command line utilities natively on Windows from a single binary. Revealed at this week’s ...

Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications. The ...

Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its Linux subsystem even further into Windows. Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its ...

Microsoft’s Build developer conference kicked off today, and as with almost everything the company has done in the last few years, Microsoft’s opening keynote focused overwhelmingly on AI and other ...

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Microsoft used the Open Source Summit North America 2026 event to position open-source infrastructure and hardened Linux distributions as foundational components for emerging AI-native and agentic ...

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...

Azure Linux 4.0 expands Microsoft’s Linux strategy for secure AI and server workloads. Azure Container Linux offers hardened, lightweight infrastructure for Azure containers and regulated enterprises.