Better Buy: Microsoft vs. Alphabet

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) are two tech giants that frequently find themselves in competition with one another. Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that beating Android in the mobile computing market was a "$400 billion mistake" he regrets making while in charge of the company. Meanwhile, Alphabet has not managed to catch up to the software giant when it comes to its cloud computing efforts.

Clearly, both companies have had their share of huge hits (Office 365 and YouTube) and puzzling misses (Zune and Google Glass) over the years, and both are considered successful operations these days.

The astounding success of these "trillion-dollar" tech stocks may lead investors to wonder which company offers the highest potential returns going forward. Let's compare the two to find out.

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Source Fool.com