Let me re-write that a little to make more sense "From Day 1 Microsoft believed their success was based on partnering/OEM with hardware and software companies t

Let me re-write that a little to make more sense "From Day 1 Microsoft believed their success was based on partnering/OEM with hardware and software companies to get their products to market. Based on that they built out the infrastructure to manage all aspects of partnerships. Google, however, started with a direct to consumer offering that had no need for a costly partnership management infrastructure. So both built up organizations to support their initial customer base and did so very efficiently"