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Innovation through collaboration: A common concept in the open source community that has yielded some amazing achievements and helped shape modern software.

How do devs spend more time on what makes their app different and unique, and less time on plumbing and infrastructure?

We are in the midst of an application development and IT system management revolution driven by the cloud where business realities are driving developers to adopt an application architecture model called “microservices.

I had the pleasure of addressing the Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit to speak about the advantages of an open approach to cloud computing and share Microsoft’s latest innovation with the community.

Today, we are announcing an update for our mobile and desktop app customers. Learn about some important upcoming changes and when they’ll happen.

One of the great benefits of Azure VMs is the ability to change the size of your VM based on the needs for CPU, Network or disk performance.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux images available in the Azure Marketplace, Azure Container Service broadly available, Bitnami images certified for the Azure Marketplace, and OneOps support on Azure.

We’re glad to announce added images for SQL Server Express with Tools 2014, 2012, and 2008R2 in the Azure Gallery.

If you have been using Parse hosting as the backend that supports your mobile apps, this may be the perfect time to try out Azure App Service.

As part of our promise to deliver the best customer value on Azure, we have had a longstanding commitment to make our prices comparable on commodity services like compute, storage, and bandwidth relative to Amazon Web Services.

I am excited to announce general availability of App Service Mobile Apps.

The Azure team has been working closely with credativ to curate official Debian images for the Azure Gallery and Marketplace and today we’re pleased to announce the availability of Debian GNU/Linux as an endorsed distribution in the Azure Marketplace in collaboration with credativ.