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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Office comes up
How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
- ▶ 1:46 Matt Bornstein They had Copilot, they had Office, you know, they had VS Code, all of these things combined, they were going to somehow win AI.
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 36:24 Benedict Evans Um, of course, we're going to, we're going to build Office with open source.
Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
- ▶ 23:36 Steven Sinofsky During open source, like, we met in a conference room this big and debated how much open source we could use in Windows or Office.
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 15:47 Alex Rampell They probably spend money on Microsoft Office.
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 30:28 Benedict Evans And you know, Office is basically just, you know, a thin Win-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X 2 times in the scene
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 31:54 Alex Rampell Like their very, very first products, they were not Microsoft Office, it was not DOS.
Software is Eating Labor
- ▶ 17:16 Alex Rampell They probably have a Microsoft Office license, they probably have a website with Squarespace or Wix, and that's it.
- ▶ 23:16 Alex Rampell You need more people, um, and no company has popped up effectively doing software, because it's like, the software market's kind of small, the people market's very large, now you can roll into Citi and say, hey, I will do compliance for…
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 27:24 Steven Sinofsky I mean, like you, if you, you know, remember people, like, I, I tried to jam the internet into Office. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:00 Steven Sinofsky Like office is basically a format debugger.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 42:13 Steven Sinofsky But what it did to Microsoft was, it like, saw, we, you know, the, I was in office, we did the deal, but then we had a fight with the, the Internet Explorer team who thought they should do the deal, but they didn't want to do the deal…
- ▶ 1:09:23 Steven Sinofsky And I'm running Microsoft Office, and Google is just like, we're never gonna make money from this. 2 times in the scene
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 1:04 Erik Torenberg And, and before that you spent many years at Microsoft helping lead both, uh, Office and Windows.
- ▶ 28:09 Steven Sinofsky The whole reason I moved to China was because they were stealing Windows and Office left and right, and my job was to sort of somehow help to see if we could stop that.
- ▶ 49:30 Steven Sinofsky And so all of a sudden, I'm basically running a browser and Microsoft Office. 2 times in the scene
Can the Military Move at Startup Speed? How the Army and Navy Are Rebuilding
- ▶ 13:16 Alex Miller Because what that really turns into is a 30 year long set where, you know, Microsoft might have been thinking, right, office is going to be around forever.
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 15:36 Steven Sinofsky And what we saw was, like, for a while, building, building one app seemed like a crazy thing, because you had to own Windows, and you had to own Office, and, and then, but then a new app came along that didn't own any of those, and it was…
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 17:55 Marc Andreessen The, the, the, the, it was written at the time, I don't know if it still holds, but it was, um, somebody did benchmarks of you take Microsoft Office, 2000 on a PC from 2000, and you take Microsoft Office, 2007 on a PC from 2007, and every… 2 times in the scene
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 0:24 Frank Chen Before he came to us at A-sixteen Z, he had a storied career at Microsoft, and unless you're like three years old, you've used his products, Windows and Office.
- ▶ 3:15 Steven Sinofsky Now, the, the Office products were relatively new. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:42 Steven Sinofsky And, and we're over in Office planning, like, what to do for these two releases of Office. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:59 Steven Sinofsky This newly formed group called Office. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:27 Steven Sinofsky Different characters, like what should be the character for Microsoft Office? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:18 Steven Sinofsky You could install Office without Clippy even being installed, and admins would do that, and so, but this notion that, that, like, someone always said it would is very interesting because that describes the 10 years after Clippy from, like,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:29 Steven Sinofsky so what we ended up doing was, the next release of Office, which became Office 2000, we sort of demoted Clippy, and, and reduced his interactions, or its interactions, or her interactions, um, some, and. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:03 Steven Sinofsky I remember it vividly, and I walked in, and like, the receptionist has Office 97, and is using it, and like, I watched the receptionist type in a help question, and kind of giggle.
- ▶ 56:49 Steven Sinofsky And then in Office XP, we were like this, we did a bunch of UI work with a thing like, more like Photoshop, these sort of task pane interface.
- ▶ 58:37 Promo Video Actor Office XP has put your skinny metal butt in the digital dustbin. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:27 Steven Sinofsky There's no work for me because you have Office XP. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:01 Steven Sinofsky And it was really funny, because, you know, I, you know, a few years later, after Office, 2007, I would move to Windows.
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 7:17 Frank Chen He brought Office to the Mac, and then IE became the default browser.
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 22:04 Frank Chen They are, uh, the company was started by a set of Microsoft Office people who worked on Microsoft Office, and what they're writing is a real-time guidance system for writing things like job descriptions. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 20:21 Chris Dixon You already have office, you have all this other stuff.
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 26:33 Steven Sinofsky But the things that, the most interesting thing in this conversation is the, the, the vast richness of the, the Windows platform is rolled up into Office.
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 8:45 Benedict Evans I mean, I've, I've had sort of variants of this conversation with Steven Sonofsky, our partner here who used to work, um, ran Office and then ran Windows.
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 13:17 Benedict Evans Yeah, I mean, there's, there's a fruitful analogy, I think, in looking at Facebook as being a bit like Microsoft Office.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 24:49 Steven Sinofsky Like, you could really start to see, and because we did the ribbon back, way back in office, as a way to just basically do the same thing.
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
- ▶ 3:52 Steven Sinofsky And that's like a thing that I'm, as you can tell, I get overly sensitive to because, you know, working on Office for a very long time, you know, you would do some release of Office, and then everybody would say there's no new features in… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 11:36 Benedict Evans The strategy is Office, and Office and Windows. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 3:41 Benedict Evans And, uh, Microsoft haven't yet built the charting module for Office for iPad.
a16z Podcast | Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack
- ▶ 26:21 Michael Copeland Um, Microsoft made an announcement recently with its Office, 2016 product, and they said they had a slack killer.
a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
- ▶ 15:24 Benedict Evans That is to say the idea that Microsoft's strategy is everything will run Windows and we will leverage Windows and Office against each other. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce
- ▶ 2:43 Craig Walker But the reality, like, what we see is businesses are moving their productivity suites to the cloud, their email, their Gmail, their Office
- ▶ 22:54 Craig Walker And so they're using, you know, their exchange server in the back room, and they're using, you know, the DVDs of Office, twenty-twelve in their computers.
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 14:07 Steven Sinofsky And, you know, people underestimated the impact of just having office on, on PCs, which created a whole, almost a separate, a whole separate layer in the whole ecosystem that was equal in size to the operating system.
a16z Podcast | Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow
- ▶ 12:37 Ash Ashatosh That they're sucking out all Office and Exchange and SharePoint for sale.
a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
- ▶ 16:41 Benedict Evans Um, it's an attempt to solve the reasons why it's hard to use Microsoft Office on it, solve the reasons why it's 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
- ▶ 3:38 Benedict Evans Written about, you know, what will happen to Microsoft Office over the next five, 10 years.
- ▶ 7:31 Benedict Evans Is writing down the mobile acquisition from Nokia, and really signalling the end of Windows everywhere, um, as the kind of the driving strategic force of the company that, you know, you can get Office on iPad, that they're neutral as to… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tools for How We Work Today
- ▶ 6:51 Steven Sinofsky 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, the Word documents and spreadsheets, and that became SharePoint. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:12 Stuart Butterfield We used Office.
a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
- ▶ 9:58 Benedict Evans Yeah, it's a bit like, you know, the dilemma Microsoft had putting Office onto Mac, except much more so.
a16z Podcast | Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist
- ▶ 0:39 Benedict Evans Um, iPhone six plus professional edition with office.
a16z Podcast | The Topic That's Lasted the Entire History of Computing -- Bundling and Unbundling
- ▶ 1:14 Benedict Evans And, you know, Steve, as you were saying, this is kind of a story that goes back to Office, and it goes back to mainframes, and everything else.
a16z Podcast | Mapping the Information Economy -- Where’s the Cloud Going Next?
- ▶ 10:34 Aaron Levie Maybe it's Gmail or Office for email.
a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next?
- ▶ 12:04 Steven Sinofsky Like, like actually, I know, you know, when iPad office came out from Microsoft, the first thing everybody says is it didn't print, except it was only two years ago that nobody printed anything from their tablet.
a16z Podcast | Engineering a Revolution at Work
- ▶ 2:11 Steven Sinofsky And, and it was right when people were starting to put Office into desktops, um, or, or Office-like software.
- ▶ 4:37 Benedict Evans And then I arrived in the workplace in 98 or 99, so that was the heyday of Office and Windows NT-IV.
AI: What's Working, What's Not
- ▶ 24:30 Frank Chen Microsoft Office.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
- ▶ 21:47 Benedict Evans Fix your chair, and adjust the air conditioning, and bring your new keyboard, and install the new antivirus software onto your PC, or update Microsoft Office, or something.