[kirinan]

For the tech enthusiast and the visionaries, you are correct; It is a very viable technology. However the majority of people that deploy software are rather conservative and unless they see a market leader such as Microsoft with a solution they don't deem the technology safe to use. This is well documented in a lot of literature like Crossing the Chasm but can be observed frequently if you work at a larger non-tech oriented company. Whether or not this notion is actually correct is debatable but it doesn't change the validity of it.

[at-fates-hands]

This also means a lot of Microsoft shops who have a lot of Docker enthusiasts will be able to pitch this to thier bosses, who might not have been on board prior to this since it wasn't an enterprise MS product.

This will open a TON of doors for everybody.

[rbanffy]

I think that when a "market leader" finally adopts technologies that were in use for more than a decade by their competition, it's safe to assume the tech got mainstream...