When it comes to showing off power of innovating and coming up with new products every day, entangling the Internet in a web of products, all branded, Google cannot be matched. Microsoft is trying its best, making its engineers work towards different goals at the same time, but the Mountain View based company clearly owns the stage.

A recent Fortune and Hay Group survey asking 3,700 experts from dozens of industries to select their top 10 companies they admire the most has come up with very i...