Microsoft this week announced that a new type of Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016 will be coming soon.

Microsoft launched the fourth technical preview for the next version of Windows Server on Thursday, giving the public access to its new Hyper-V containers.

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

With this release, Microsoft is not positioning Windows Server Containers as an outright competitor to the Docker container, but rather as a complementary technology.

Microsoft confirms it will have a Nano Server mode in Windows Server 2016, along with new Hyper-V containerization technology.

As previously mentioned, Windows Server 2016 allows for the creation of Windows Server containers and Hyper-V containers. The two container types are nearly identical to one another, but there is ...

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 ...

Microsoft took a two-pronged approach to trimming the size of Windows Server Core container images, according to Weijuan Shi Davis, a Windows Containers program manager at the software giant.

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 ...

Microsoft is promising to deliver a smaller container size and improved PowerShell performance with its next release of Windows Server.

Patrick Lang, Windows Server's senior program manager, blogged that in the just released Windows Server, version 1709, Windows Insiders will be able to run Linux containers.