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Finally. Do you think this will significantly hurt the virtual machine industry?

• fapjacks 12y ago
  My instinct is that people at MS are freaking out right now about Docker specifically. It's hard to say which decisions were "coaxed" into place with Bill Gates advising the new CEO, and which are attempts to strategically react to the negative mindshare of Azure against everything going Docker. First we have the "news" that MS is doing some mystery thing with Docker (which really must be a matter of semantics, because for an OS which didn't have symbolic links until 2008, I can't imagine it's possible to bring something like LXC to the Windows kernel), and now this news about Microsoft "open sourcing" a portion of their development tools, from the same company paying TV shows to awkwardly use the phrase "Bing it". If anything, it's just an interesting time to be alive.
  • SideburnsOfDoom 12y ago
    > My instinct is that people at MS are freaking out right now about Docker specifically. All, right, why would you say "freaking out" specifically? MS has a habit of adopting good ideas from elsewhere, and I don't think containerisation is any exception. Maybe they see not supporting it as a strategic weakness, but shoring up strategic weaknesses is business as usual for any large company, not "freaking out". Throwing chairs is freaking out. We know that .Net is rolling out containerisation features in 2015, including but not limited to docker integration. Going all in on any tech is an odd way to "freak out about it".
    • fapjacks 12y ago
      Whatever, kid.