Zappykins said:
Really, I didn't get that. I think they are referring to the fact that Microsoft has spent more money than any other company on research and development than any company in the history of the world. There was a quote that they spent as much or more, than the R&D of All other Companies combined, but I don't know if that's just glamorizing or something true. Just last year Microsoft spent 10 Billion dollars on research and development. That is a tremendous amount of money. I've heard the biggest complaint is that they don't know what to do with it sometimes, or just give up on things right before they are brilliant and popular. (That's how the spent a couple of billion dollars on kinect, before they even had it; and jumped when PrimseSince brought in their tech.) By comparison, Sony post 67 Billion Yen loss in 2011. (A Million yet in about $11868.98 in 2011). So they just don't have as much to spend on research. They are very different companies and do different things. They overlap in gaming, and soon production, but work together on a number of other projects. |
maybe not as much as all other company competing combined, but I know the last number I had (2012) MS was putting at least twice more in R&D than anybody else like google and apple (and twice was the minimum in comparisaon)
but yeah while they compete on some things they do work together on other.
