&gt; it&#x27;s not Google, Facebook, or Apple that&#x27;s the Bell Labs of our generation - it&#x27;s Microsoft<p>That is quite true, the amount of research they put out in OS, programming languages and distributed systems is quite impressive.<p>They are the ones that have invested more in doing OSes in more safer programming languages or tooling.<p>Also many don&#x27;t realize how quite a few main contributors of their beloved open source languages are actually on MSR payroll.