Microsoft Office, every mention

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Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future Dec 12, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Apr 27, 2019 · 46 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Feb 24, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:17 Frank Chen He brought Office to the Mac, and then IE became the default browser.

Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning Feb 9, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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' Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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? Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jan 2, 2019 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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) Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | The Topic That's Lasted the Entire History of Computing -- Bundling and Unbundling Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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? Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next? Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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.
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