To be fair, you can use Docker with VirtualBox, although I think it tends to be slower and use more resources.
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That is true, but it is a slightly different product, no? I wonder why they didn't simply let users to decide which hypervisor they want to use for Docker.
I can hardly see a use case for having Docker for Windows for software development.
Potentially someone could actually prefer Hyper-V on Windows 10 over VirtualBox. On my Windows 10 laptop I use Hyper-V to run Docker, stand alone Ubuntu 16.04 and Gentoo VMs, as well as Windows VMs provided by whatever the Modern.IE project is now known as.
I'm sure that if I needed to run something much less currently maintained, like OS/2, that VirtualBox on Windows would be better.
Also, I think it would have been a good idea for the Docker for Windows package to allow choosing between common Windows VM system instead of being tied to only one.
I was also running Hyper-V just to get an opinion, so I had Docker for Windows and Ubuntu VM alongside. Setting it up was a little bit clumsy - nowhere near the comfort of VMWare Workstation.