Have you used a windows only container? I've not seen one in the wild, but I might be terribly biased.

Yep, I've also seen several corporates deploying Windows containers to production. As more "traditional" windows focused companies move to containerization/cloud, there's an increasing use of Windows containers, either as part of a Lift & Shift effort to migrate workloads, or because their developers are more comfortable with Windows and so they target that platform.

No, not yet. But we might go that way in the future for windows software on azure, much along the lines of:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/moderni...

I tried to make one with VS build tools a couple years ago. It’s probably not too bad to do by now, but MS licensing is a massive drawback IMO. I’d rather focus on tech than reading license agreements that could be changed on a whim.