Comment by amelius
9 years ago
Um, Microsoft has also been a steady producer of academic research papers.
Just as an example: http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html
(Scroll to the bottom, and see that MS is #1, ahead of e.g. MIT, which is #3 on the list, and far ahead of Google which is #17 on the list)
Not to mention, they employ many stalwarts of CS, like Simon Peyton Jones and Leslie Lamport.
David DeWitt, Michael Freedman, Jim Gray, Anders Hejlsberg, Butler Lampson are all Microsoft Technical Fellows