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Linux containers slide into the Windows Server beta

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Sep 20, 2017

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 and open source’s praises at a keynote speech at The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America in Los Angeles, the Windows Server’s developers were putting the last touches on Linux containers in the next release of Windows Server 2016.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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