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Huh? A strategy is not the same thing as a mission statement. Microsoft's mission statement is "to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential."

http://www.microsoft.com/about/en/us/default.aspx

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...by doing what, specifically?

It's a mission statement, not a strategy.

Is this a recursive algorithm?

It was, but the stack overflowed.

The stack of OS upgrades? Or the stack of critical software updates? Or the stack of windows on the unmanageable, broken-metaphor 'powered' desktop? Or the stack of useless Microsoft 'powered' devices now in landfill? So many stacks. So little time.

Well those aren't actually stacks but a kind of unordered heap called a pile.

That's still extremely vague. Much more than Google's.

Google's statement, "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful," doesn't describe any of their plans to achieve that goal either.

Providing synergy.

That is one thing Microsoft has always done do well.

The multiple products they offer have always provided high levels of seamless integration.

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