Microsoft doesn’t want to get left behind as containers quickly change how developers write and deploy applications. Last October, the company announced that it would support Docker containers with ...

Hoping to build on the success of Docker-based Linux containers, Microsoft has developed a container technology to run on its Windows Server operating system. “We’re finding that interest in ...

In an interview, Canonical strategic leader Dustin Kirkland has revealed that Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, and Microsoft are working together on the LXD container hypervisor. LXD is an ...

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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 ...

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Microsoft is building support for Hyper-V containers into Windows 10 client, company officials publicly acknowledged late last week. On the last day of its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft ...

Microsoft has released the third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 to beta testers, and for the first time the software comes with Windows Server Containers. The release doesn’t put Windows ...

Although containers emerged from the land of Linux, Microsoft has wholeheartedly embraced them. Beginning with Windows Server 2016, the company began offering two types of Docker-compatible containers ...

With continued investment, apparently inexhaustible media attention, and real enthusiasm from developers, it would be easy to assume that San Francisco startup Docker invented the increasingly popular ...

ORLANDO, Florida – While cloud subsystems like containers and serverless computing still live in the nether region between hype and adoption, Microsoft is one company that is advancing the ...

Microsoft Corp.’s plan to fill its mammoth Chicago data center with servers housed in 40-foot shipping containers has experts wondering whether the strategy will succeed. In Microsoft’s plan, each ...