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# of papers published is a poor metric (google's published like 40% as many papers, over a shorter period?) MSR has done cool work and important work, but google's publications have been often been major paradigm shifts. In a lot of ways they're currently way out ahead of everyone else.
Microsoft created Haskell. Google created Go.
Go isn't even a product of Google research. We're in a thread talking about AI research. I'm comparing Google's ML work to Microsofts.