The Verge 2017 tech report card: Microsoft

If 2016 was the year of putting failures behind it, Microsoft’s 2017 was a year of focus. Over the past 12 months we’ve seen the software giant successfully execute on its plan to become a major cloud competitor. It’s a massive part of Microsoft’s business now, and it will only continue to grow into 2018. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also revealed that the company’s future is in artificial intelligence, Mixed Reality, and quantum computing. We’ve seen early wor