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Microsoft Office

part of Microsoft includes Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2016, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Office 97, Microsoft Office For IPad

4 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Steven Sinofsky · said 109 times in 40 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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brought up most by Steven Sinofsky (57), Benedict Evans (23), Promo Video Actor (8), Frank Chen (5), Alex Rampell (4), Marc Andreessen (2), Craig Walker (2), Stuart Butterfield (1)

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2019 86 mentions in 26 episodes 3 per episode
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Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Sinofsky: SharePoint originated as an internal repository for Office specs
“We were trying to build the specs for Office, and of course, we didn't quite know what to build, so we built like a spec place to put all the Word documents and spreadsheets, and that became SharePoint.”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:51 a16z Podcast | Tools for How We Work Today
Apr 27, 2019
Assertion Contradicted
Sinofsky: Japan represented over half of Microsoft Office's business
“Japan, it was more than half of the office business.”
Steven Sinofsky Apr 27, 2019 ▶ 39:53 Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
Apr 27, 2019
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Sinofsky: Half of Microsoft Office's 1994 revenue came from Mac
“About half of our revenue was on the Mac.”
Steven Sinofsky Apr 27, 2019 ▶ 20:23 Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
Aug 25, 2025 negative
Opinion
Sinofsky: Productivity software like Microsoft Office is essentially a format debugger
“A huge amount of the productivity software space today is like the preparation of output. Like office is basically a format debugger.”
Steven Sinofsky Aug 25, 2025 ▶ 33:58 Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
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