Docker for Windows currently only ships on Windows 10 editions that support Hyper-V." The limited preview sign up page for both Docker apps is here.

Docker is rolling out new public betas of its Docker app for Windows 10 and Mac, as well as private betas of Docker 1.12 for Azure and AWS.

But, the docker host isn't the docker daemon. Ah, gotcha. But still, running the daemon as root, hrm. Vast majority of daemons these days run as their own user.

Docker announced that its native Docker Desktop Windows application will soon switch to the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) from the Windows-native Hyper-V virtualization it currently uses.