微软显然已经发现了区块链的强大力量及其在企业业务领域潜力巨大的颠覆性作用。该公司目前正在开发区块链应用程序——虽然不像创新公司提出的一些解决方案那样华丽，但同样实用。
微软还希望构建可供企业发展自己的区块链应用程序的平台，例如机密联盟（Coco）框架——一种基于以太坊的协议，这部分属于该公司的云计算部门Microsoft Azure的工作。
Three years ago, Microsoft Azure was the first to bring blockchain to the cloud. Now it's connecting the technology to just about everything else.
The software giant has quietly been building bridges between its blockchain services and other, widely used infrastructure and platforms, such as Office 365 Outlook, SharePoint Online, Salesforce, Dynamics 365 CRM Online, SAP, and even Twitter, according to Matt Kerner, the general manager of Microsoft Azure. The idea is to allow Microsoft customers to port their data from these platforms into the cloud, and from there onto a blockchain.
