It's almost as if Google is a massive organization running hundreds of initiatives spanning decades, making it difficult to simplify things with a single description.
And Microsoft is a feisty startup with a focused product line?
No, Microsoft is the same. My comment doesn't imply that Microsoft is somehow simpler than Google. The point is that the two people above me are disagreeing because they're over-simplifying these complex entities.
And yet one constant that connects all past Google projects: premature, without-warning shuttering of operations*
* not all operations, but enough for it to become a cliche