One contrast between Microsoft and Google is that Microsoft doesn’t repeatedly break working products and confuse everyone with changing names around yearly. M

One contrast between Microsoft and Google is that Microsoft doesn’t repeatedly break working products and confuse everyone with changing names around yearly. Microsoft has a long history of failures from Bob to the Zune, but their core stuff, including Windows, Office, Visual Studio, is solid. Bob didn’t destroy Windows. Occasionally the products go off course, like Windows ME, but they seem to correct fairly quickly. It certainly has been disappointing watching rock solid software from Google just disintegrate over the past decade. If it wasn’t for the iOS Mail app, I suspect gmail would be completely botched by now. Another consideration to the Verge article, how much money has Google spent doing all of this wild stuff just to their messaging products? I would guess well over $10b. Organizationally Google’s management layers should be gutted. From the CEO to middle management, the company is run by people who couldn’t operate an average company lacking a high margin cashflow cow.