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Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 26:29 Chris Dixon And it just gets this, you know, it starts off, if you go back to, like, when Linux came out in, like, whatever, early nineties, it was definitely worse than Windows, but then it just followed this much faster, like, innovation curve…
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.
- ▶ 3:19 Steven Sinofsky The, the first successful version of Office on Windows was, was only two years old.
- ▶ 19:12 Steven Sinofsky Um, and, but, and we were selling Office on the Mac and just started selling it really well on Windows. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:52 Steven Sinofsky Like it had to be a, it had to be a Windows H wind to, to really do this, especially because we wanted to share the code across the products and all this other confusing stuff.
- ▶ 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.
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 35:48 Ryan Caldbeck I'm stuck in, you know, Excel, Windows, that's, that's what I'm stuck using here.
a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 18:34 Benedict Evans This is Apple putting QuickTime on Windows. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 9:05 Brian McCullough So it's that sort of chicken and egg thing where people see the web for the first time in the mosaic browser, cause it's easy to use cause you can get it on windows and they say, I want to create a cool thing like what I just saw.
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 22:12 Chris Dixon I mean, it's still, people are still using, you know, I don't know, you go to the, whatever, you go to the United desk, and they've got like a DOS interface, you go here, and they've got Windows, you know, I mean, the government hack was… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:47 Chris Dixon I include, I think Windows is a network, right?
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 20:39 Chris Dixon So, you know, the equivalent of a hot dog and a hot dog bun is, you know, is Windows and, you know, Quicken or something back in the old days, and like in the modern world it would be Twitter and TweetDeck or something, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | B2B2C
- ▶ 2:47 Alex Rampell So you go to WinZip, they were our first client, a decompression, compression software product for Windows.
a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
- ▶ 2:40 Darshan Shankar And it's certainly not for everybody, because these headsets are expensive and does require Windows PC, but the good news is there is good content out there today that is sufficiently compelling that people can spend 10 hours a week.
- ▶ 5:21 Chris Dixon and then it's like Windows has to update, and I have to reposition the cameras, and like, you know, that kind of stuff, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:24 Darshan Shankar So we just launched our application on that new platform, and that's Microsoft building the entire software stack to ensure that Windows continues to be the operating system of choice for high-end VR usage.
- ▶ 22:56 Darshan Shankar And each year, as these headsets get double the resolution, or half the price, or doesn't require Windows PC, or doesn't require a 500 dollar graphics card in your PC, that continuous improvement, I'm really excited for that.
a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
- ▶ 10:00 Frank Chen So today we do lots of over-the-air updates to our iPhones and Androids and to Windows.
a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- ▶ 26:25 Steven Sinofsky Like, you know, if you're making a Windows laptop, it's, like, cool to continue to have all the legacy plugs and all of the different variants of adapters and plugs built into the machine, and Apple makes these bold choices that really do…
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 0:30 Benedict Evans I'm here with Stephen Sinowski, and we've been talking a fair bit up around the kind of fundamental platform shift that's going on in tech from PC, Wintel, mouse, Windows-based computers to mobile operating systems, and we thought it was…
- ▶ 9:04 Benedict Evans And five years ago, that would have been a Windows app. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:52 Benedict Evans So as you're sitting and looking at that nurse's station, you've got a Windows PC there that has management cost.
- ▶ 20:06 Benedict Evans And we moved the front end from a Windows application that we had to think about all the time and manage an update to a browser. 4 times in the scene
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 | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 4:19 Chris Dixon Um, and so that goes back to, you know, windows is a platform, obviously, you know, iOS and iPhone is a platform.
a16z Podcast | Getting Applications Into People's Hands
- ▶ 14:24 Chris Dixon And if you look at windows versus Netscape and all these other things, like every developer network in history has been like just constant battles between the network owner and the different
a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
- ▶ 17:56 Frank Chen What happened out of the eighties was more the rise of client-server computing and Microsoft Windows,
a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- ▶ 43:26 Reed Hastings You have to be up at, you know, Windows monopoly levels to get to there.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 2:28 Steven Sinofsky I'm super interested, of course, in the, in the pixel, you know, comparison, pixel plus Android, and then the Windows devices plus the OS there, because they're very similar on the outside, but very different in that the ecosystem around…
- ▶ 9:27 Steven Sinofsky To me, I think, and like now I'm speaking personally, because there is a reach problem when we were doing Surface, like one of the reach problems was I couldn't do a press briefing with somebody that was running a Windows laptop. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:43 Benedict Evans We give up, more or less give up on making phones, but we add touch to Windows.
- ▶ 15:50 Steven Sinofsky So what we did is we put all those in on the Windows side and doing, trying to do the same thing. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | On the Genomics of Disease, From Science to Business
- ▶ 18:52 Malinka Walaliyadde If you think to the nineties, Wintel was a thing, the, you know, Windows and Intel together core marketing, and that took both of those companies to new heights. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
- ▶ 0:05 Kyle Russell I'm joined today by Benedict Evans, our in-house expert on all things mobile and Steven Sanofsky, former head of windows and aspiring amateur photographer.
- ▶ 33:12 Benedict Evans This comes back to what we were saying about the performance issue on the Galaxy Note, which is, in a sense, what we're doing is we're rerunning Mac versus Windows. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | All About Microservices
- ▶ 17:12 Frank Chen The portals of version multiplied by the flavors of Unix multiplied by whatever Windows versions you're supporting, right?
- ▶ 19:08 Adrian Cockcroft There's now containers for Windows as well, but originally this was a Linux-based concept.
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 4:42 Marc Andreessen The idea of a platform in the tech industry, as you know, up until, up until, you know, five or 10 years ago, was there is a new chip that has new capabilities, is faster, and then therefore you build a new operating system for it, and…
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 23:32 Alex Rampell Like, they never said, hey, this software product cannot be downloaded onto your Windows PC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:11 Alex Rampell A Windows version of iTunes, but then the iPod actually started dramatically outselling the Mac and it became this cultural icon with the white headphones and like the dancing, like people in the, the, the background screen and everybody… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
- ▶ 17:03 Chris Dixon All the business people in the suits with the windows laptops or whatever, you know, the reality is today, like, why do they fly?
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 24:13 Balaji Srinivasan Like, 50% of your waking hours, and we're probably going to replace a significant percentage of monitors with VR with something to the two-D world, right, and there's going to be a new Windows that's based in the three-D universe, which…
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
- ▶ 2:27 Benedict Evans And so you could almost, should almost be looking at this and thinking, okay, Windows, Mac, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:29 Benedict Evans And so you've got the taskbar in Windows, you've got the expose on the Mac, and then you had the multi-split screen thing in Windows eight. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:31 Benedict Evans I mean, this is something we haven't talked about, which is this sort of, it's a transition from, I mean, and it's something that's very interesting when you look at the iPads next to the Surface, um, which is because the Surface comes…
- ▶ 22:28 Steven Sinofsky Like, the Outlook that got updated today that's on my, on my iPad, like, has connections to Facebook events and Evernote, which aren't things that exist in the Outlook that I would use on my Windows desktop. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- ▶ 3:10 Benedict Evans Um, and then there's a sort of a third run, third question in here as well, I think, which is sort of Facebook sitting on other people's platform, and the smartphone itself is kind of, is a platform for the internet in a way that Windows… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- ▶ 4:32 Marc Andreessen So Microsoft Windows, for example, will do well.
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 15:49 Benedict Evans Within this for Google, which is like, does, given, like, the kind of, the fundamental shift as we went from, one of the fundamental shifts as we went from the desktop internet to the mobile internet was that the smartphone itself is the…
a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
- ▶ 4:23 Benedict Evans Yes, you could write a Windows application that connects to the internet, and yes, there was Steam and so on, but basically the internet experience was in the browser, and on the smartphone it's on the operating system, and you target, you…
- ▶ 7:12 Benedict Evans So Microsoft, Apple has got several multiples of what Windows had had when Windows like 95 was a new thing. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 5:17 Benedict Evans Saying that, you know, unlike, say, a web browser on a, either a Windows or a Mac, where the web browser was the platform and the Windows or the Mac computer wasn't really where you were building internet services. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:27 Steven Sinofsky Like once Windows and, and Intel sort of stabilized that itself enabled the web to continue to exist because it gave
a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
- ▶ 11:16 Benedict Evans Um, you know, you can have email and PowerPoint, or you can have email and a web browser, and so you can multitask in a way, again, that you can do on the surface, you know, with Windows, from starting from Windows eight, you had this… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
- ▶ 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 | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
- ▶ 2:34 Benedict Evans Um, rather it was kind of Windows and Mac OS built up all that kind of stuff over the last 30 years.
- ▶ 16:08 Benedict Evans Um, I mean, it's a little bit like, as I was saying on the WWDC podcast yesterday, it's a little bit like what Windows was trying to do, what Windows Phone was trying to do with the home screen, where you had this stuff appearing on the…
- ▶ 18:40 Benedict Evans And so you had your Windows, or you had your Mac, and you had one icon, which was the internet, and everything appeared within Netscape Navigator.
a16z Podcast | Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
- ▶ 1:04 unnamed speaker Yes, something called Windows, maybe?
a16z Podcast | Making Security More Useable
- ▶ 9:41 Todd McKinnon Usually, it used to be that you would have a crappy Windows application running on the client, and that was what you used, and you become hell or high water.
a16z Podcast | Tools for How We Work Today
- ▶ 11:02 Stuart Butterfield You know, I worked at a design agency and we used Windows on the desktop. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
- ▶ 4:01 Benjamin Heinemann Um, uh, and, uh, that's, that's a Linux, not Windows.
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 27:25 Benedict Evans And I'm kind of, again, I'm sort of exasperated by people who think that looking at Windows versus Mac tells you something about this, because both the iPhone business is in a fundamentally different position in the industry to where the… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call
- ▶ 4:27 Alex Stamos What's happened is, is that the, the level of adversary has caught up to a level that's well beyond their ability to play, and so when you look at, like, the people who are in okay shape are the, the big tech companies, because we have big…
a16z Podcast | The Consumerization of IT
- ▶ 11:27 Florian Leibert I think if we look at companies like VMware, for example, VMware started out with providing VMs for Windows, essentially. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | An Open Source Business Model That Works
- ▶ 21:53 Ben Uretsky You can't today run a Windows container inside of a Linux server.
a16z Podcast | The Micro and Macro of Mobile
- ▶ 11:02 Benedict Evans Now, at the moment, that's actually a Windows tablet, and if you squint at it, it's actually running an application that's kind of really designed for a mouse, so it's a little bit cumbersome for this poor guy.
a16z Podcast | When Large Scale Gets Really Massive -- Managing Today’s Enterprise Networks
- ▶ 8:24 Steven Sinofsky Actually, like, and then we, we started talking more, and so then I started trying to play, like, let's stump Orion with questions about, about networks, and so my favorite vulnerability from the Windows side was always the, the plug in a…
- ▶ 11:49 Steven Sinofsky If you look at them, it's a series of, you're looking for this file, for this process, this Windows registry key changed, you know, this, this little piece of software ended up on a Mac, and you actually have all of these.
a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
- ▶ 23:51 Benedict Evans Why wouldn't you buy a Windows or a Mac?
a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
- ▶ 14:03 Peter Levine You know, it used to be where I had to support Windows and Linux on a machine, therefore virtual machines are important.
- ▶ 17:23 Chris Dixon Um, it basically allows you to run an operating system on top of an operating system, which is great for both running Windows on top of Linux, but also in, in a way to partition resources effectively, so you can sort of say, I, right, I… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Promise (and Nightmare) of Cross-Platform Software
- ▶ 0:50 Benedict Evans So if you were to look at, you know, Windows and Mac, you have a file picker, you have Windows, you have scroll, you have,
- ▶ 9:54 Steven Sinofsky Well, because at the time, going back to your original thesis, you know, what, what differentiated windows from the Mac was kind of not very much like windows were the sort of the same.
a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
- ▶ 14:30 Benedict Evans Uh, Macs, because there's, you know, something like one and a half billion Windows PCs out there. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next?
- ▶ 5:34 Steven Sinofsky And on Windows tried things with split screen and multitasking.
- ▶ 6:29 Steven Sinofsky Well, that, and that's exactly what the mainframe people said about Windows Windows. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:24 Benedict Evans What we would think of as a PC running Windows or Mac OS. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:05 Benedict Evans Yeah, I mean, just to sort of, to wrap up, I mean, there's a final thing that I keep seeing in mobile, which is, you know, in one sense, the platform wars have played out, and we've got Apple and Google and maybe Windows, and, but nothing… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 7:33 Benedict Evans You know, when you're, if you were a software developer, 30 years ago, when you were saying, right, we're going to invest ten million dollars making an application for Windows, do we invest another five making it for Mac, and there's no…