Microsoft is now worth more than Alphabet
I'm puzzled why "Proven"s comment is dead? What they wrote seems accurate. There is no reason why this comment should be downvoted, and certainly no reason why the comment should be dead. This is what they wrote:      Simply speaking they actually make more products people like to use.

      Google essentially has just one, and it’s based on diminishing user privacy to the maximum extent possible.

      MS collects user data but so do Ubuntu and CentOS... not to the extent Google and FB do it.

That is absolutely true. Microsoft has a huge range of products. It produced three of the most profitable products in history:Microsoft WindowsMicrosoft SQL ServerMicrosoft OfficeFor awhile, circa 2005-2015, there was some thought that Microsoft's products were going to be replaced by online equivalents, and was a contributing factor that held down Microsoft's stock at that time. But it is now clear that Microsoft's products are going to survive. Partly, Microsoft has adapted to the online world, and partly, large enterprises are more comfortable with Microsoft's model, rather than Google or Zoho or Wufoo or any other online replacements.Microsoft Excel remains the default lingua franca of business. Google Docs and Spreadsheets has not replaced Office.And SQL Server continues to have a huge number of fans, even in a world full of very good open source databases.