When my friend and Directions on Microsoft 's Editor in Chief Mary Jo Foley wrote in late May that Azure Linux 4.0 would be available for bare metal servers and virtual machines VMs, I thought, I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for this. That's a good thing because it took Microsoft until this week to fulfill the promise. True, Microsoft did release Azure Linux 4.0 , but I assumed it would only be available for ages on Microsoft's own Azure cloud. I mean,...
