Microsoft has a long history of turning its internal tools into products, especially as part of Azure. That’s not surprising: The company is building and running the same cloud-native applications as ...

Microsoft this week announced that its Azure Backup service now can back up Hyper-V virtual machines, as well as the files and folders of some of Microsoft's flagship servers. Azure Backup was ...

Microsoft has introduced Project Bletchley, its vision for the role that blockchain technology will play in Azure. Blockchain is a tamper-resistant system for the ledger-like logging and updating of ...

It's time for another new Microsoft codename, decoder-ring fans. This week's entry: Project Brooklyn. (Thanks to Chris Woodruff of Deep Fried Bytes podcast fame for the pointer.) Here's the reasoning ...