Microsoft is Top R&D Spender
Microsoft is currently #1 at $6.584 billion. The next closest competitor in the software business is Oracle at $1.872 billion. Google doubled it's R&D spending in 2006 to $1.23 billion, but still below the average in terms of %-age of revenue.
https://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0%2C1540%2C2114821%2C00.asp?kc=BLBLBEMNL041707EOAD
And why does Microsoft appear again at #9? I have no idea. I think they meant Google.