The Difference between Google and Microsoft

Could it really be this simple, this cut and dried? Google has hired futurist Ray Kurzweil to assist them in figuring out where to go forward to the future; this will have an impact on networks, engineering, language processing and managing data.  Microsoft, its arch-rival, has hired Mark Penn, former bulldozer on behalf of the Clintons, to do the same bulldozing to Google. Microsoft is looking to achieve stasis, not innovation, defamation. Should be interesting.