Microsoft is promising to deliver a smaller container size and improved PowerShell performance with its next release of Windows Server. The next Windows Server release, dubbed "20H1" for its release ...

When it comes to building distributed applications at scale, containers have become the logical deployment tool. They let you wrap up code at a service level, keeping your application separate from ...

In perhaps its greatest embrace of the open source Linux community to date, Microsoft is teaming up with Docker to develop Docker containers that will run on the next version of Windows Server, the ...

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When you think of containers, it's easy to think of Linux first. Most containers and container workflows are built on Linux, and for obvious reasons. Linux starts faster, takes up less space on disk ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft has announced that new previews of Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 are both ...

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 ...