Microsoft

You get to work on things that everyone in the world, including your friends and family, use. If you are working hard and are excited about your project and customers, you will be rewarded. Just like Google's 20% time, if you are getting your work done, you are encouraged to find "relevant" extra work that you get to choose and are rewarded greatly if you do.

Compared to Google, it appears that Microsoft is too focused on making money. Microsoft management does not seem to inform employees of their long-term vision, why a change in direction occurred, and more importantly, why they chose that direction as opposed to some of the other possibilities.

Inform employees of their long-term vision, why a change in direction occurred, and, more importantly, why that direction was chosen over other possibilities.