Intern at Microsoft here. As time goes on, Google and Facebook will eventually be bogged down by the same bureaucracy that exists in any large company. The mai

Intern at Microsoft here. As time goes on, Google and Facebook will eventually be bogged down by the same bureaucracy that exists in any large company. The main difference between Google/Facebook and Microsoft at that point will be what business they are in. If the past and present are any indicator of the future (which I accept might not be the case), then Google and Facebook will be bringing in the vast majority of their revenue through selling ads. Microsoft, on the other hand, will probably still be making their big money selling software. Now I'm sure that a lot will argue that Microsoft makes $x off of android and $y off of linux, but this doesn't really make much of a difference to the engineers. In my opinion, what does make a difference, especially in the minds of "young tech idealists", is that Microsoft sells software, not ads (for the most part).