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

If your Linux machine in Azure has port 5986, 5985, or 1270 externally exposed, you need to update it as soon as possible.

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

Nohup is a command which prevents commands / scripts from stopping should we close a terminal window / SSH session.

The feature does not incur any costs, yet storage of scripts in Azure may incur billing. More details on the Arc-enabled servers and Run Command are available on the documentation landing page.

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 usage on Microsoft Azure has now surpassed Windows. Here's how the OS came to dominate the enterprise.

Earlier today, Microsoft's developer account posted a tweet revealing that 40 percent of the virtual machines hosted on the company's Azure cloud platform are powered by Linux distros.