Until now, users had to run Python code on Microsoft Azure’s cloud servers. To provide Python in Excel locally, Anaconda used Microsoft’s existing Excel plugin capabilities combined with their own ...

With its Anaconda Distribution for Python running in Azure, Python in Excel will call common Python libraries, including pandas (data manipulation), statsmodels (advanced statistical modeling ...

Allowing containers to run in Azure App Service makes a lot of sense; Kubernetes is overkill for a small single container application that doesn’t need to scale, while Functions is for simple ...

Now that Python support has been added, Azure Functions covers two of the perennially most popular programming languages. "You can now develop Python 3.6 apps to run on the cross-platform, open source ...

According to ZDNet.com, the VMs can run Windows Server 2008 R2, the Windows Server 2012 release candidate, and also OpenSUSE 12.1, CentOS 6.2, Ubuntu 12.04 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 ...