This is the new Microsoft (Dave Gershgorn/Quartz)

Dave Gershgorn / Quartz
This is the new Microsoft – Microsoft has a real shot to end the year as the most valuable public company in the world. That wasnt the case a year ago, That wasnt the case a year ago, and it would have seemed absurd five years ago, when the company was being leapfrogged by burgeoning behemoths …