Ouch. I start to think of Microsoft and Apple. :( So far Google been outpacing my expectations on driving web technologies forward - all this for later go back

Ouch. I start to think of Microsoft and Apple. :( So far Google been outpacing my expectations on driving web technologies forward - all this for later go back to the "native client" approach Microsoft had in late 90s (thy stopp believing in HTML/JS). Does this mean MS was right back in '99? I'm really confused about Google's vision of how the web will work in 10 years from now. Anyone with insight in there?