<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There is a rumor  Microsoft is just weeks away from making a major announcement about quantum computers. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.cbronline.com/news/microsoft-set-5-year-quantum-computing">https://www.cbronline.com/news/microsoft-set-5-year-quantum-computing</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div>If true this could be huge because Microsoft is working on a topological quantum computer that operates by manipulating exotic Majorana fermions<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ and ​produces far fewer errors than conventional quantum computers, if any quantum computer could be called conventional. </div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">John K Clark</div></div></div>