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 is building new container technologies into the next Windows Server release, enabling Dockerized applications to run on Windows Server on-premises or on Azure.

Docker is hosting its developer conference in Seattle this week and showcasing the quickly growing ecosystem that has grown up around its container tools.

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

Microsoft also unveiled the addition of the Docker Trusted Registry VM [virtual machine] image into the Azure Marketplace, an “enterprise-ready Docker repository, behind the firewall, on an ...

Containers upended traditional software application deployment practices by opening up a whole new range of possibilities across multiple machines, and Docker, which pioneered the modern container ...

Recently appointed Azure CTO Mark Russinovich spells out Microsoft's espousal of the container cause on its cloud computing platform and his reservations about Docker security.

Microsoft indicated that its container images hosted on Docker Hub weren't compromised by a security breach that was discovered by Docker last week.

Containers were born on Linux, and Microsoft has been working with container technology platform Docker to bring containers to Windows.

Microsoft Open Technologies Inc. (MS Open Tech) has made the Docker Engine for Linux available to Microsoft Azure customers since June 2014. Engineers from Docker and MS Open Tech continue to work ...

The deal with Docker was inked a few months back. Now Microsoft describes how to create a Docker VM that hosts any number of containers for your apps running in Azure.