{"id":263972,"date":"2026-06-04T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/microsoft-continues-its-big-linux-push-at-build-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:05:12","slug":"microsoft-continues-its-big-linux-push-at-build-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/microsoft-continues-its-big-linux-push-at-build-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft continues its big Linux push at Build 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-continues-its-linux-company-shift\/\">Microsoft continues its big Linux push at Build 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-continues-its-linux-company-shift\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-continues-its-linux-company-shift\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 08:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Corinne Reichert\/CNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET: <span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span> on Google.<\/p>\n<h3> \tZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft is becoming more of a Linux company.<\/li>\n<li>Linux now spans Azure, Windows, and AI workstations.<\/li>\n<li>AI is pushing Microsoft deeper into Linux.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Microsoft Build 2026 was not Steve &#8220;Linux is a cancer&#8221; Ballmer&#8217;s Build. Instead, Microsoft announced the arrival of Azure Linux 4.0, a general-purpose Linux server, Azure Container Linux, Windows 11 customized for developers that incorporates Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a high-end AI workstation that comes preconfigured with WSL 2, native GPU passthrough, and full Nvidia CUDA support.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why? Besides the demand for Linux on the server and cloud &#8212; today Linux is the most popular operating system on Azure &#8212; AI development runs on Linux. There are no competitors. It&#8217;s that simple. If you want to program AI, you&#8217;re doing it on Linux. Period. <\/p>\n<h2>Azure Linux and Azure Container Linux<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Azure Linux 4.0<\/strong> is a Fedora Linux-derived, RPM-based, general-purpose server distribution for Azure virtual machines (VMs). This is Microsoft&#8217;s first Linux server. Earlier versions of Azure Linux were designed to serve as dedicated Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) container hosts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With this version, Microsoft positioned Azure Linux as a hardened baseline for cloud-native and AI workloads rather than just Kubernetes underpinnings. Microsoft says the distro is built and maintained in-house, with a trimmed package set and an emphasis on supply-chain transparency. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>My top 5 Linux desktops of 2026 (so far) &#8211; and I&#8217;ve tried them all<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alongside that, Azure Container Linux, built on the Flatcar Container Linux lineage, is now generally available. Microsoft is pitching this immutable, container-optimized OS as its answer to Google&#8217;s Container-Optimized OS and Fedora CoreOS. Interestingly, CoreOS and Microsoft&#8217;s new container Linux spring from&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-continues-its-linux-company-shift\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft continues its big Linux push at Build 2026 https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-continues-its-linux-company-shift\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-04 08:59:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/d526ad543c5dc1f1961c5c2237057c4d68c21651\/2026\/06\/04\/106f3a3c-9e92-4943-9f30-75112f366ce2\/build.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[97,71],"class_list":["post-263972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-fedora","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263976,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263972\/revisions\/263976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}