As Microsoft's Azure CTO Mark Russinovich noted in a blog post earlier this week, "Linux containers require Linux APIs from the host kernel and Windows Server Containers require the Windows APIs of a host Windows kernel, so you cannot run Linux containers on a Windows Server host or a Windows Server Container on a Linux host".
It also supports Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol, resulting in iPhone or iPod touch devices that can host Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and anything those operating systems can run.
This instrument is remote controlled from a LabVIEW GUI on a host Windows computer and is intended for ion optics control in electron affinity measurements on negative ions at the CERN-ISOLDE facility.
The unit will gather data about an automobile's performance and daily route, store it for transmission, and download it to a base station, but can't host Windows.
The new operating system appears much better than Vista, even if its advertising is unremittingly clunky (a video for enthusiasts interested in hosting Windows 7 launch parties has provoked unexpected mirth on YouTube).
However, to broadcast your desktop, you also have to install an ActiveX controller (732 Kb), which makes hosting Windows only.
Microsoft dropped a new Windows 10 build yesterday, build 10051, adding support for a host of Windows Phone handsets previously unsupported by the operating system.
Sky Arts will also host Christmas Windows Live, a series of real-time, live performances broadcast from a shop window in London's Westfield Stratford shopping centre.
I'm stoked that Microsoft choose me, ME, to host a Windows 7 Launch Party.
That's right, lame ol' Burns is going to host a Windows 7 party.
