Cloud and virtualisation are related ideas, but they're not the same thing. To Microsoft the real benefit of its Azure cloud service is more than elasticity and scaling and economies of scale; it's ...

The beta version of the v1.3 Virtual Machine (VM) Role lets you host a custom base virtual hard disk (VHD) image of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard or Enterprise Edition and, optionally, one or more ...

Microsoft doesn’t want to admit it, but a Gartner analyst says the vendor’s decision to offer Windows Server instances in the Azure cloud is opening a new competitive front against partner hosting ...

Microsoft is looking to make it easier to move existing Windows Server applications to the company’s Windows Azure cloud platform via virtual machine technology. The company unveiled this week Windows ...

A new report claims that Microsoft will allow the open source Linux operating system to run on a new persistent virtual machine feature for its Windows Azure cloud-based platform. Microsoft's Windows ...