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Native docker on Windows

I recently read a few news articles that say Microsoft is working with Docker to get docker running on Windows Server.

I want to ask if this would allow Windows applications to run inside docker containers, or is it just a way to run an already available docker image library (which runs a specific subset of a linux derivative in them) to run on Windows without using a virtual machine?

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This is about running Windows containers on Windows hosts.

Linux containers should still run on Linux (or in a Linux VM on a Windows host, but you can already do that today with boot2docker).



Here is a source from Microsoft . Pay attention to the diagram.

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Windows Server has one feature called Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) or Subsystems for UNIX Applications (SUA). It's like an extension to the Windows kernel, but minimal.



I believe it is possible if Microsoft changes this "kernel extension" to be compatible with Linux with most retentate kernels, to make one "think" that can run some custom Linux applications.

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Latest update for Windows Server 2016 TP3

https://msdn.microsoft.com/virtualization/windowscontainers/containers_welcome

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