Unlike Windows Server containers, Hyper-V containers place the host OS kernel inside of a Hyper-V VM. Thus multiple host OS kernels can be used in parallel, and isolated from one another through ...

Microsoft released the third Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview that introduces containers based on Docker Engine as well as other new features including upgrades to Active Directory, RDS ...

The PowerShell speed improvement will show up for organizations using Windows containers on Windows Server 20H1, and they should use the .NET Framework-based images.

Operating Windows Server containers is, as it should be, identical to operating Linux containers. It’s the underlying container OS that’s different, not AKS or Kubernetes, or even Azure’s ...

Windows Server 2016 users also will have the option of running what Microsoft is calling Hyper-V containers. These are Docker-manageable containers that will be powered by Microsoft's Hyper-V ...

The only real difference is that Windows Server Container runs on Microsoft’s proprietary operating system, rather than Linux – which means apps specifically designed for Windows Server and ...

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

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 ...

Microsoft today released Windows Server 2019 Insider Preview build 17738. It includes a couple of new features like host device access for containers and SDN high performance gateways.

With Windows Server a key element in Microsoft’s edge compute strategy, it’s an important role for Windows Server as both host and container OS.

That isolation comes at a cost, though: Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich said in a recent blog post that Hyper-V Containers will be slower to start up than Windows Server Containers and won ...