To win in 2017, Microsoft has to keep innovating

What happens when you stop being afraid? Ask Microsoft, a company that seemed to spend the better part of a decade tiptoeing around customer concerns and competitive land mines to create a string of perfectly acceptable products with very little heat.

Fast forward to the last couple of years where Microsoft has consistently surprised customers and even outshone competitors. 

"Microsoft is focused on building market-leading, category-changing products. They seemed to have seized that mantel from Apple," said Forrester Research analyst J.P. Gownder. Read more...