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AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 11:28 Benedict Evans And then the second half of the stream is, oh, and here's our API stack that's going to enable 100,000 of new software developers just like Windows.
- ▶ 30:24 Benedict Evans And the app, Windows apps are basically just kind of thin Win-thirty-two wrappers.
- ▶ 48:15 Benedict Evans But the interesting candle example here would be to think about what happened to Microsoft in the 2000, which is the entire dev environment gets away from them and no one builds Windows apps after like 2001 or something, but you need to… 3 times in the scene
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 28:30 Alex Rampell Because they owned Windows. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:41 Alex Rampell And then lo and behold, there were like, 10,000 times more, you know, DOS and Windows software products than there were Macintosh software products.
How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
- ▶ 37:25 Martin Casado Except for maybe windows.
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the State of AI
- ▶ 27:55 Ben Horowitz They completely missed that one, but they were still so big from their Windows monopoly, they could build into other things.
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 55:02 Marc Andreessen So did it have Windows at that point, or? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:06 Amjad Masad Yeah, right before Windows. 3 times in the scene
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 42:37 Steven Sinofsky It's not running windows anywhere.
- ▶ 47:37 Steven Sinofsky Cause like the window, there was no business in Microsoft development tools anymore. 2 times in the scene
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 30:16 Steven Sinofsky And so Windows comes along. 6 times in the scene
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 10:31 Steven Sinofsky When Microsoft was going through ANS Antitrust, we had a hundred percent share of the Windows market.
- ▶ 41:04 Steven Sinofsky So they think like once a company is like IBM and owns mainframes or as Microsoft and owns windows, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:54 Steven Sinofsky It's like, it's like the profits from office are still the profits of Microsoft with windows and stuff.
From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
- ▶ 0:44 Martin Casado So when VMware came out, I remember like it was the late nineties and I could run like Linux on my, you know, windows and it was the most amazing, magical moment.
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- ▶ 26:47 Antonio García Martínez But this is, I mean, again, to quote our friend Balaji, the analogy he cites, um, if you remember what, back when we had windows machines, you would do something called defragmenting the disk. 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.
- ▶ 28:00 Steven Sinofsky And that was the step when they attached the Windows logo to the PC, something Steve Jobs would never have allowed. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:27 Steven Sinofsky And so Apple, so the PC makers just continued to stamp out routine things for at least three more years until Intel finally invested a bunch of money in the OEMs via pricing to get them to build what today look like laptops for Windows…
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…