4 ms·
Google didn’t have time to establish and solidify corporate culture before the current trends began. Microsoft was more entrenched and stable.
by newsclues 6y ago
Google didn’t have time to establish and solidify corporate culture before the current trends began.
Microsoft was more entrenched and stable.
- fmajid 6y agoIIRC MSR was started by Rick Rashid (the inventor of the Mach microkernel that NeXTstep and Mac OS X are based on), and it was always very independent of the rest of Microsoft and its business priorities.
- Zanni 6y agoMSR was started by Nathan Myhrvold who recruited Rashid. Well, "started" may be ambiguous here. Nathan proposed it. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/nathan-myhrvold/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/nathan-myhrv...
- ashtonkem 6y agoI have no insider knowledge, but from the outside it sure as heck looks like Microsoft has rebuilt its internal culture since the founding of Google. It certainly doesn’t feel like the MS of Bill Gates or the MS of Steve Ballmer anymore. If that is true, wouldn’t this imply that the difference between the two isn’t time since these unspecified “trends” began, but instead quality of management?