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Kick off Windows Server Summit 2026 with a forward-looking conversation led by the people shaping its future. Gain valuable insights as Windows Server product leaders come together to discuss the momentum behind Windows Server 2025 and share what’s coming next.

You’ll hear how Microsoft is investing in Windows Server today—across security, hybrid capabilities, and platform innovation—and how those priorities are shaping the roadmap ahead. Whether you’re planning your next upgrade or setting longer-term infrastructure strategy, walk away with a better understanding of what you need to do next.

 

This session is part of Windows Server Summit 2026.

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Updated May 15, 2026

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  • Heather_Poulsen's avatar
    Heather_Poulsen
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    May 11, 2026

    That’s a wrap! Thanks for joining us! We hope you enjoyed this session and Windows Server Summit 2026. We’ll continue to answer questions here in the chat through the end of the week. If you missed the live broadcast, don’t worry – you can watch it on demand.

    In fact, you can catch any of this week’s great Windows Server Summit 2026 sessions on demand by visiting https://aka.ms/WindowsServerSummit.

  • BobFuller_CHS's avatar
    BobFuller_CHS
    Occasional Reader
    May 11, 2026

    Seems that only questions can be asked live, IF you can sign into Youtube. 

    • Heather_Poulsen's avatar
      Heather_Poulsen
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      May 11, 2026

      BobFuller_CHS​ - We have folks monitoring the comments here, on LinkedIn, and on YouTube. Sometimes we have to reach out to others on the team for a specific answer, but we are answering live on the session pages during the live stream.

  • Steskalj's avatar
    Steskalj
    Steel Contributor
    May 11, 2026

    What is the future of containers for Windows Server? The licensing is complex and it seems teams inside Microsoft are not using them or pushing them. Such as the .Net team and the SQL Server team. As customers we need to see Microsoft embracing Windows containers everywhere, not just as a "Oh that is a nice add on"

    • Taylor Brown's avatar
      Taylor Brown
      Icon for Microsoft rankMicrosoft
      May 12, 2026

      We continue to see steady growth in their usage by both first- and third-party customers - for example Microsoft Teams, many of the M365 services many Bing services and others across Microsoft are dependent on Windows containers. We are actively investing in base functionality including networking optimizations (based on eBPF), patching and deployment optimizations and continually improving reliability/diagnosability/performance.  For process isolated containers - such as what Kubernetes offers a valid Windows Server host license gives you unlimited (not limited by the license) containers, Hyper-V isolated containers are licensed similar to VMs with datacenter having unlimited (not limited by the license) instances and standard edition having 2 per instance.