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Microsoft Launches Azure Linux 4.0, AI-Ready RTX Spark Dev Box

6/5/2026

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Microsoft announced Azure Linux 4.0, a general-purpose Linux server for Azure.
Microsoft released Azure Container Linux for Kubernetes and introduced MX C, a Windows sandbox for AI agents.
Kyle Daigle, Microsoft COO of GitHub, said the Windows 11 WSL 2 update creates an ‘agent-native’ OS layer for AI.
The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box launched with 128 GB memory, 1 petaflop compute, support for 120-billion-parameter models, WSL 2, GPU passthrough, CUDA, VS Code and GitHub Copilot.

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Story summary

Microsoft announced Azure Linux 4.0, a general-purpose Linux server for Azure.
Microsoft released Azure Container Linux for Kubernetes and introduced MX C, a Windows sandbox for AI agents.
Kyle Daigle, Microsoft COO of GitHub, said the Windows 11 WSL 2 update creates an ‘agent-native’ OS layer for AI.
The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box launched with 128 GB memory, 1 petaflop compute, support for 120-billion-parameter models, WSL 2, GPU passthrough, CUDA, VS Code and GitHub Copilot.