Docker container support will be part of the next release of Microsoft's Windows Server, officials from Microsoft and Docker Inc. announced on October 15. Microsoft is building "new container ...

Docker has given rise to Linux and Windows containers but Microsoft is also championing Kubernetes, the popular open source container orchestration system developed by Google. Containers are one of ...

Microsoft today published the third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016. As promised, this is also the first version of Windows Server to natively support Windows Server ...

Docker containers are one of the hottest technologies for developers these days and all the large cloud vendors now support it in some form. For the most part, though, containers are associated with ...

As the capabilities of virtual machines reach their outer limits in the quest to build cloud-based software-defined datacenters, containers are quickly emerging as their potential successor. Though ...

Microsoft has announced that it is building "new container technologies" into a Windows Server update to be released by mid-2015. Customers of Windows Server will be able to create Docker container ...

I spent the end of last week at Monki Gras, a London developer conference focused on the craft of software development. It’s a fascinating event, and this year focused on how to package software. Not ...

In a story I wrote for Computerworld in January, which was a review of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4, I mentioned Windows Server’s new support for Hyper-V containers that had been added to ...

Specifically, it's a toolkit to assemble custom Linux subsystems with the initial intention to create a more native experience for Windows and Mac macOS desktops and cloud platforms. This program was ...