You can spend money on performance or on features.
Google has historically been good at high performance computing, and chose to spend enough money to get and fund a team of experts on building high performance VMs.
Microsoft has historically been good at adding backwards compatible feature sets, and chose to spend enough money to get and fund a team of experts on tasteful design and evolution of programming languages.
Google has historically been good at high performance computing, and chose to spend enough money to get and fund a team of experts on building high performance VMs.
Microsoft has historically been good at adding backwards compatible feature sets, and chose to spend enough money to get and fund a team of experts on tasteful design and evolution of programming languages.