It's not about the amount, but the type of people who stay when they could move to a higher paying job. And the fact that it's impossible to poach people from

It's not about the amount, but the type of people who stay when they could move to a higher paying job. And the fact that it's impossible to poach people from companies offering a higher salary than you do. Unless you give them something more, like better conditions, or "mission", or the idea to work on something cool, but I don't think any of those apply to Microsoft.