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. SEE ALSO: Here's what will change now that Microsoft owns LinkedIn "Microsoft is focused on building market-leading, category-changing products. They seemed to have seized that mantel from Apple."