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 ...

The release of Windows Server 2016 will bring a new option of building apps based on micro-services that run in Docker and other standard containers. Does that portend the end of the VM? The rise of ...

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 ...

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Windows containers. Microsoft announced the general availability of that support this week for AKS, which provides serverless Kubernetes as an integrated ...

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Microsoft’s own experience with Microsoft 365 shows that moving to cloud-native is possible, even when you have a lot of code to move. There’s an old adage often shared by developers building on ...

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 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 ...