While Google struggles to figure out its attitude toward various crypto products, another IT giant, Microsoft, has announced the introduction of a new Blockchain-as-a-Service solution. The service is available on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform and offers users the opportunity to create and launch their own Ethereum-based blockchain network in a matter of minutes. Despite the problems surrounding regulation of the crypto industry and the talk of its imminent collapse, the world’s largest IT corporations are diving head first into the fray for leadership in this trending segment. In any business it is important to avoid living only for the moment and swimming with the tide, and to think several moves ahead. Microsoft learned this lesson well after missing the boat on the “mobile revolution.” That is why I believe that the competition in blockchain is only going to escalate. Victory will go to the most flexible and crypto-oriented, and not necessarily to a global player. https://www.ccn.com/microsofts-new-ethereum-blockchain-product-gets-rid-of-mining/
