> plans to build a reliable quantum computer over the next 25 years.

That seems like quite a long time to go.

Hey, at least Microsoft is finally trying to build a reliable computer. That’s the real headline here.

I thought the Surface was like, the top Windows machine out there for a bit?

Windows has worked perfectly for me since 10. This is with glitch prone stuff like music production, video editing, and gaming. The rare crash is also easy to diagnose with Reliability Monitor. I don't know what people are doing to have so much trouble on modern Windows.

They tried from some time. And they came _so_ close. /s

Can’t wait for the Quantum add in for Excel!

It's all fun and games in your quarterly earnings report until the superposition collapses and your net profit is just a dollar sign in front of a Bloch Sphere.

I was using Windows NT 25 years ago.

This is the real reason NT's epoch starts in 1601. This is just cover: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20090306-00/?p=18...

They already have the first working prototype from some time: The Save File dialogue. You know its speed (very slow) but you don't know its direction (virtual folders, cloud). Maybe they shall call it Microsoft Heisenberg OS version 6.62607015×10−34 .

Microsoft already has a quantum computer running their Azure billing platform.