Every day in every way, Microsoft and Linux are getting closer. Maybe MS-Linux isn't a joke after all? While Julia Liuson, Microsoft's corporate VP of developer tools and services, was singing Linux ...

Microsoft this week announced that a new type of Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016 will be coming soon. The move, which was unveiled at this week's DockerCon 2017 in Austin, Texas, ...

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 containers, ...

Running containers on Windows has never been as easy as it should be. While there are versions of Docker Desktop and Podman ...

Who knew that Microsoft would one day run software you didn't have to pay for ...

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 is ...

Microsoft has submitted a series of patches to Linux kernel developers requesting that Linux run as the root partition on the Hyper-V, its hypervisor software for running Windows and non-Windows ...

Microsoft indicated late last week that it will build Hyper-V containers natively into Windows 10. The company's April 1 announcement wasn't a joke. Instead, it's yet another perk for developers. It's ...

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 ...

Microsoft said it will add tooling to Hyper-V containers in Windows 10 that will allow developers to bypass complex VM machinations to support development activities. Coming PowerShell module for ...

These Windows 11 improvements actually compete with Linux now.

In this post, we compare VMware, VirtualBox and Hyper-V to determine which hypervisor best meets your production or infra needs. Virtualization has become an indispensable part of modern computing.