“Everyone in the industry has been doing containers before containers were cool. Inside our services, inside services like Bing, we’ve been running containers for a long time,” John Gossman, an architect on Microsoft’s Azure core team, told theCUBE at DockerCon 2015.

“The industry tends to be revolutionized not by somebody coming up with some incredible algorithm, but by making it really easy to use,” Gossman stated. According to Gossman, Docker’s key was putting existing container technology in the right combination and making it simple. Although containers had been around for 15 years, the technology was considered specialized and advanced until Docker made it easy to use and fast to deploy.

Customers want to run Docker

Microsoft has embraced Docker, not only by bringing Docker to Azure, but bringing Windows to the Docker ecosystem and Docker to Windows. Gossman told theCUBE that this is because it is what its customers want.

“Every enterprise has a wide range of software they want to run, and they want to bring it all,” Gossman said. “So we look a lot at what it is that customers are asking for, and for well over a year now, one of the biggest things that people are interested in is running Docker.”

Asked about what he sees for the future, Gossman replied: “I don’t think operating systems are going to go away, I don’t believe hypervisors are going to go away, and I know that people are going to use a lot of containers in the future.”

Watch the full interview with John Gossman below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of DockerCon.

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