Google felt stumbling repeating many previously announced AI features in other spaces or small improvements to distract that their version of conversational search is behind.
Google did not have the source links below the Bard chatbot responses. They also did not show recent news results like Bing did yesterday.
And their presenter felt stumbling at moments too and lacking confidence. And the demo phone was "stolen". So also in execution the event felt lacking...
Microsoft said in their interview with The Verge that they were working on a raw version of their new Prometheus model since mid 2022 which also shows those sources. And they showed the nice compose and website summarise conversational tool integrations for within Edge. There were no hints of integrations of Bard within Chrome. So it feels that including training time + product development time that Microsoft is at least a year ahead.