Microsoft wasted countless years in the internet race against other tech competitors (until 2000 under the savvy management of Bill Gates).
Luckily Microsoft has a new management now, and they seem to see the blockchain for what it is, a disruptive technology, by Microsoft's latest actions, despite Bill Gates' undecided position and double talk.
Bill Gates is now in the "phase" where he supports his closest friend Warren Buffett in his radical traditionalist position against the future (not his, most likely).