Great title and info @elliotjgardner , I also wrote an article just now about IOTA. Actually IOTA does not have any partnerships with Microsoft and the IOTA foundation has given a clarification today about the confusion or mis information they have created, take a look:
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@felipesuarez/the-reality-of-iota
Pura vida man, cheers.
I mentioned your article on my comments man, thanks for the great info.
Thanks for the mention @felipesuarez!