Creating a Windows Virtual Desktop using the Azure Portal requires a number of steps, some of which are less than intuitive. This tutorial shows you how to navigate the various configuration screens.

In an effort to bolster utilization of unused Azure compute capacity, Microsoft has introduced Azure Virtual Spot Machines. A variety of workloads are noted to be supported at discounted prices. Spot ...

Microsoft today announced the "general availability" of its Accelerated Networking technology for Azure virtual machines, which is available for use with both Linux- and Windows-based VMs. General ...

Microsoft Corp. today added two sets of virtual machines to its Azure public cloud that are designed to facilitate confidential computing, an increasingly popular approach to improving the security of ...

It's been a long road, but Microsoft announced on April 4 a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines via its work with Ampere Computing. Ampere is a startup that makes server chips. Ampere ...

Microsoft today announced a GS-Series for organizations tapping Azure virtual machines (VMs). The new GS-Series offers five VM sizes with the same specifications as the G-Series of VMs that Microsoft ...

Way back when virtualization was a new thing, virtual networks were simple connections that linked virtual servers and the occasional networking appliance. Now, however, things are different. Building ...

Microsoft has launched two new initiatives that aim to give more developers access to cloud functionality when making video games. Announced during this week's Game Developers Conference, the first is ...

When it comes to the size of virtual machines in the public cloud, does size matter? Microsoft, which runs one of the world's largest public clouds in Azure, thinks the answer is yes. Microsoft, ...