This is the story of every large company out there including Google. With size, comes structure, and with structure bureaucracy. Metrics take the place of intelligence and straight jacketing becomes the norm. Some companies (like some people) live to a ripe old age; some die a premature death. A 100ton truck cannot take a hairpin at 100mph.

Decline and death is the norm in industry as in life. The next microsoft would come out of the thousands of startups that are being hatched today or tomorrow.