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

Developers will soon be able to run Linux containers natively on Windows Server, Microsoft Corp. said at Dockercon 2017 Wednesday. Windows Server 2016 already provides support for Docker ...

Window Server will soon natively run Linux containers using the company’s Hyper-V container isolation technology, Microsoft announced during Dockercon 2017 conference. The project to enable the ...

We are now extending this same Hyper-V isolation technology to deliver Linux containers on Windows Server. This will give the same isolation and management experience for Windows Server Containers and ...

Continuing to show support for the idea of containers, Microsoft today released Hyper-V containers to go along with its previously announced Windows Server containers. The difference between them ...

Hyper-V can also provide unprecedented isolation between containers, and you can leverage your existing Active Directory infrastructure for apps in containers with Group Managed Service Account ...

Additionally, this week, Canonical announced that it has published a tutorial on how to launch Ubuntu Linux containers with Hyper-V isolation on Windows Server and Windows 10.

Docker and Microsoft are working together to make Linux containers available on both Windows and the Azure cloud.

Microsoft is unveiling its take on what it means to deploy applications within containers. Hyper-V containers are managed by Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, and each can hold an application.

Microsoft on Wednesday said it will offer Hyper-V container support to provide additional deployment scenarios and allow for the development of more scalable apps.

Containers come to Windows with new Windows Server 2016 beta The first part of the Docker-compatible container functionality is here.