Well, well... I think we might be finally getting somewhere, at least that's what I hope. And, at least someone is actually trying to progress the future of PCs and computers. It's actually ironic, coming from an OS company.

The company is stepping up efforts to make quantum computing hardware and software. Microsoft is accelerating its efforts to make a quantum computer as it looks to a future of computing beyond today’s PCs and servers.

http://pcworld.com/article/3143705/hardware/microsoft-puts-quantum-computing-higher-on-its-hardware-priority-list.html
 
 

Yeah, yeah, whatever.  Nobody even knows whether quantum computing is possible.  Google, NASA, Lockheed Martin, and Los Alamos National Laboratory have all invested millions of dollars already into quantum computing.  D-Wave already has a working machine thanks to millions of dollars of investment except that it doesn't behave properly.  They can get it to work as a standard computer but cannot unlock its quantum computing abilities.
 
I don't think Microsoft will somehow magically figure out the physics problem.  "Doubling down" on nothing still provides the result of nothing.
 
Watch this:  a real good basic insight on the issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYx04e35Xso
 
It seems like the problem is that it is hard to direct a computer to work in a useful fashion (the way you want it to work in order to solve some problem) without forcing the quantum particles to behave in a standard binary way.  In effect, our world is surrounded by quantum computing everywhere we look and touch; but we can not use nature to run our computer program any more than we can get D-Wave to run our quantum computer program.  At least that is the current status of the industry.

Hey, we have to start somewhere. I'll give credit where it's due to Microsoft that even they might see that we are going nowhere in PC technology, just stacking more cores on top to the point we have a solid brick as a CPU. At least it's a start where Microsoft is trying to go.
 
I agree with you, they are not going to figure this out tomorrow. It will take years before anything happens, but like I said, we have to start somewhere. If only AMD/Intel hopped on the bandwagon to get this in motion...