Microsoft: 40 percent of VMs hosted on Azure are powered by Linux October 31, 2017 by admin Tweet 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. Read more… Neowin Related Posts:Microsoft Azure VMs powered by Ampere Altra ARM…Ubuntu Confidential Virtual Machines come to Microsoft AzureFabricScape: Microsoft patches Azure security flaw…Unity taps Microsoft Azure as its cloud partnerBored of Windows? Even Microsoft wants you to try…