Microsoft Excel, every mention

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▶ 22:03 Ryan Chi You know, if you, if you have a very good coding agent, uh, chances are you have a model that can also make PowerPoint slides or DCFs in Excel, um, and, and with, with high degree of capability as well.

▶ 29:34 Alex Rampell Yeah, so Amit took over, we implemented, he was very, very excited, but, uh, and I remember I, I, I came up in Microsoft, I think I did this in Microsoft Word or Excel, like, here's our pricing sheet, because we needed the pricing sheet,…

▶ 21:56 Steven Sinofsky Like when, back when we were first starting to get Excel used in companies, you'll laugh at this. 6 times in the scene
▶ 26:04 Steven Sinofsky It's export to Excel and export as CSV and or PDF you pick. 3 times in the scene
▶ 44:09 Steven Sinofsky Well, it's also, to your earlier point, you know, expertise exists in this cloud in an organization, and, and it is the, the untapped resource of the modern era, and Aaron Levy at Box has done the, the most eloquent job of explaining…
▶ 58:20 Steven Sinofsky And so they were using Excel when, when the other bankers were using one, two, three, there's actually floating around on the internet is this old commercial for Excel. 3 times in the scene

▶ 19:51 Benedict Evans Another question is like, well, you know, that seems to be a bit like what you get if you do file new in Excel, like these are templates, and they'll take you so far, but at a certain point, you know, people outgrow the templates. 4 times in the scene
▶ 39:48 Benedict Evans And then in the middle, you've got this kind of fuzzy improvised space of Excel and email and the shared file system. 3 times in the scene
▶ 54:02 Benedict Evans I think the other answer to, of course, the problem here, of course, is consumer surplus, which is to say that, um, this is kind of what happened with Excel in that, you know, guess what?

▶ 34:25 Steven Sinofsky And I, I think like there was a moment at the internet that, that I really was thinking about when, when you guys were, when I was seeing the timescale difference, which was suddenly the eight million quadrillion pages of how to use Word…

▶ 12:12 Steven Sinofsky Well, and, you know, it was, because it hurt, physically hurt, to watch somebody suffering with bullets and numbering in Word, or trying to figure out, you know, like, oh, let me just make a two-sided, a two-axis graph in Excel.

▶ 16:15 unnamed speaker I think Satya said this, um, which is that Excel is the most powerful or most popular programming language in the world. 2 times in the scene

▶ 1:46 Olivia Moore We have Cloud in Excel, PowerPoint in Chrome, and then we have desktop apps like Cursor, Whisperflow, Granola.
▶ 3:16 Olivia Moore Cloud in particular has really doubled down on prosumer with things like Cowork, Cloud Code, Cloud in Excel, and PowerPoint.

▶ 53:19 Mike Cannon-Brookes Maybe the first time someone looked at Excel, they were like, wait, where do I type the paragraphs or something? 2 times in the scene

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