
Although containers emerged from the land of Linux, Microsoft has wholeheartedly embraced them.
Beginning with Windows Server 2016, the company began offering two types of Docker-compatible containers: Windows Server containers and Hyper-V containers.
And six years after that fateful day whenMicrosoft announced it loved Linux, developers today routinely plug apps in Docker containers on any Linux distro supported by the Windows Linux Subsystem or the Azure cloud.(Insider Story)