Microsoft this week announced that a new type of Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016 will be coming soon. The move, which was unveiled at this week's DockerCon 2017 in Austin, Texas, ...

Move over, Docker, and make room for Microsoft in the emerging market for software containers. Microsoft has released a technical preview of the first publicly available version of Windows Server ...

Linux might have a 25 percent share of the server installed base, depending on who you ask, but it is The Next Platform of choice for new kinds of middleware and applications and has a much higher ...

Every day in every way, Microsoft and Linux are getting closer. Maybe MS-Linux isn't a joke after all? While Julia Liuson, Microsoft's corporate VP of developer tools and services, was singing Linux ...

Although the second test build of Windows Server 2016 isn't coming until May, Microsoft is offering a glimpse at some of the new server technologies that will be coming to Windows Server testers in ...

The latest preview of Windows Server shows a new level of support for Docker and hints at Microsoft's overall ambitions with containers Microsoft developers hungry for their first taste of ...

Microsoft launched the fourth technical preview for the next version of Windows Server on Thursday, giving the public access to its new Hyper-V Container feature. It’s a powerful tool that gives ...

The third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 was released today, with one new feature in particular sure to attract interest: container support. Microsoft announced two kinds of container ...

A little-known startup that offers data protection and SQL Server migration tools today released what it calls the first native container management platform for Windows Server and claims it can move ...

Containers have been all the rage in the open source world for a number of years, but noticeably absent from Windows until now. In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft released its own container ...

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Microsoft launched the fourth technical preview for the next version of Windows Server on Thursday, giving the public access to its new Hyper-V Container feature. It’s a powerful tool that gives ...