Google rolls lots of stuff out in "BETA" to judge how users react which gives them feedback and lets them measure engagement. MSFT does not do as good of a job

Google rolls lots of stuff out in "BETA" to judge how users react which gives them feedback and lets them measure engagement. MSFT does not do as good of a job in letting users have-at these projects, they've got such a huge array of interesting research projects underway (a whole new OS Kernel for one http://www.barrelfish.org/ http://www.barrelfish.org/) that they do not seem to market whatsoever. . .