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How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- ▶ 0:32 Steven Sinofsky Microsoft is worried way more about what Amazon and Google are doing than anyone in a startup space.
- ▶ 26:09 Steven Sinofsky Um, so, uh, Kane wrote the book, but it's with Catmull who, at Pixar, and with Daniel Lewin, who was at, at Steve's super good friend and was also at Microsoft.
- ▶ 53:42 Steven Sinofsky You know, I, I came down here, I sat across the table from all the Intel leadership, and I pulled out the first Surface, and I said, here's our new computer, and they got very excited, and then they were like, but what's in here?
Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- ▶ 13:46 Steven Sinofsky Very quickly learned about delegate access and, and having calendars owned by multiple people and all of this crazy stuff. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:56 Steven Sinofsky Like when, back when we were first starting to get Excel used in companies, you'll laugh at this. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:04 Steven Sinofsky It's export to Excel and export as CSV and or PDF you pick. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:09 Steven Sinofsky Well, it's also, to your earlier point, you know, expertise exists in this cloud in an organization, and, and it is the, the untapped resource of the modern era, and Aaron Levy at Box has done the, the most eloquent job of explaining…
- ▶ 44:09 Steven Sinofsky Well, it's also, to your earlier point, you know, expertise exists in this cloud in an organization, and, and it is the, the untapped resource of the modern era, and Aaron Levy at Box has done the, the most eloquent job of explaining…
- ▶ 44:54 Steven Sinofsky You know, which are the sales PowerPoint presentations that are actually working?
- ▶ 58:20 Steven Sinofsky And so they were using Excel when, when the other bankers were using one, two, three, there's actually floating around on the internet is this old commercial for Excel. 3 times in the scene
Box CEO on AI Agents & Why Enterprise Can't Keep Up | a16z
- ▶ 34:25 Steven Sinofsky And I, I think like there was a moment at the internet that, that I really was thinking about when, when you guys were, when I was seeing the timescale difference, which was suddenly the eight million quadrillion pages of how to use Word…
- ▶ 34:25 Steven Sinofsky And I, I think like there was a moment at the internet that, that I really was thinking about when, when you guys were, when I was seeing the timescale difference, which was suddenly the eight million quadrillion pages of how to use Word…
Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
- ▶ 12:04 Steven Sinofsky I mean, like, I spent my life, my life with sitting next to people on airplanes saying, how can I make PowerPoint do X?
- ▶ 12:12 Steven Sinofsky Well, and, you know, it was, because it hurt, physically hurt, to watch somebody suffering with bullets and numbering in Word, or trying to figure out, you know, like, oh, let me just make a two-sided, a two-axis graph in Excel.
- ▶ 12:12 Steven Sinofsky Well, and, you know, it was, because it hurt, physically hurt, to watch somebody suffering with bullets and numbering in Word, or trying to figure out, you know, like, oh, let me just make a two-sided, a two-axis graph in Excel.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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 Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
- ▶ 27:11 Steven Sinofsky And I, we saw it when we were building Surface.
- ▶ 46:58 Steven Sinofsky Because when we were first opening up all the Microsoft offices in China, the person we hired to be the head of China said, um, well, you have to have an office in every city that's more than two million people, which in the U.S. would not…
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 29:48 Steven Sinofsky And when I was talking about going to Microsoft two years later, they were like, well, you know, we have these kids who use the computer for us.
- ▶ 36:50 Steven Sinofsky oh, it makes a PowerPoint slide deck. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:11 Steven Sinofsky And really, I mean, this is this one where, you know, like, you know, was, did the internet undo Microsoft or not undo Microsoft? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:34 Steven Sinofsky I mean, even if you look at Azure today, it's an amazing accomplishment.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 48:28 Steven Sinofsky Yeah, it was, don't build a SQL server, and compete with Oracle directly, and don't build a word processor.
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 19:31 Steven Sinofsky But I, this is what, what's really gonna happen with, with writing, and then it's gonna happen with PowerPoint, and slides, and then it's gonna happen with video, and,
- ▶ 25:54 Steven Sinofsky Like, when email came along, you know, it used to be to prepare an agenda for a meeting, somebody would open up Word and type in all the things, and then print it out, and everybody would show up to the meeting with this very well format. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 27:53 Steven Sinofsky And, and then other people would be like, well, let me just try to implement Excel using these seven HTML tags with no script.
- ▶ 28:02 Steven Sinofsky The best was like, let's do PowerPoint.
- ▶ 30:09 Steven Sinofsky Like, and you won reviews because you had 7000 and Microsoft had 1200. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:16 Steven Sinofsky And so Windows comes along. 6 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
- ▶ 10:31 Steven Sinofsky When Microsoft was going through ANS Antitrust, we had a hundred percent share of the Windows market.
- ▶ 10:31 Steven Sinofsky When Microsoft was going through ANS Antitrust, we had a hundred percent share of the Windows market.
- ▶ 25:47 Steven Sinofsky Like you, you, no matter how many studies get done at HBS or at MIT Sloan, I, I literally went and when I was teaching at HBS, I spent hours in the library and pulled all these like papers with math and calculus and stuff in them that were…
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 42:55 Steven Sinofsky And so we finally figured out that like editing on the internet was not going to be like Word.
- ▶ 55:17 Steven Sinofsky And when IBM came out with the PC and Microsoft came out with DOS, part of that consolidation was due to the 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 1:09:32 Steven Sinofsky But they, they, and what Microsoft had to end up relying on is the worst part of the business, which is just enterprise distribution lock-in. 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.
Former Microsoft Executive Explains Where We Are in the AI Cycle w/ Anish Acharya & Steven Sinofsky
- ▶ 1:56 Steven Sinofsky It's going to replace Excel and it's going to replace all these things, but it doesn't add very well.
- ▶ 12:36 Steven Sinofsky I visited a really giant hospital in Minnesota to, to help them figure out how to use Excel within the medical profession.
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 6:13 Steven Sinofsky In PCs, Microsoft had 95%. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:24 Steven Sinofsky They were the first hires into Microsoft research when the labs were formed.
- ▶ 26:54 Steven Sinofsky Like how exciting, and I've been to like car factories and washing machine factories because they're all Microsoft customers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 31:50 Steven Sinofsky Now, we were there also at one point to help, help get Surface built. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:08 Steven Sinofsky We actually built a whole metallurgy plant to do injective magnesium alloy for the original Surface computer that ran NVIDIA chips and all this other stuff. 2 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…
- ▶ 34:26 Steven Sinofsky And I can tell you, we, like, Surface, there was no chance.
- ▶ 49:30 Steven Sinofsky And so all of a sudden, I'm basically running a browser and Microsoft Office. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:37 Steven Sinofsky Bill Gates used to always, always, always have to remind people that, you know, Microsoft, any day somebody could just show up and do a better version of everything Microsoft does, because it's software.
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 6:43 Steven Sinofsky Well, because you were Google and Meta and OpenAI funded by Microsoft, which all had like billions and billions of dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:22 Steven Sinofsky And, and then along came, I don't know, Microsoft and a bunch of other companies to say that's not the best layer to monetize it.
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 17:48 Steven Sinofsky And the reason it's important is because it looks like Canva or, you know, it looked like Word or it looked like PowerPoint or it looked like Excel.
- ▶ 17:48 Steven Sinofsky And the reason it's important is because it looks like Canva or, you know, it looked like Word or it looked like PowerPoint or it looked like Excel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:48 Steven Sinofsky And the reason it's important is because it looks like Canva or, you know, it looked like Word or it looked like PowerPoint or it looked like Excel.
- ▶ 21:00 Steven Sinofsky In the, in the early 2000 or the amount that Facebook invested five years later, or the, you know, people forget that Microsoft poured, I don't know, 30, forty billion dollars into Bing.
- ▶ 21:00 Steven Sinofsky In the, in the early 2000 or the amount that Facebook invested five years later, or the, you know, people forget that Microsoft poured, I don't know, 30, forty billion dollars into Bing.
- ▶ 42:29 Steven Sinofsky I mean, people like, you know, Microsoft spent 10 plus years like a distant number three in the applications business, and it was a platform shift that all the other players ignored that that caused it to win.
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 3:15 Steven Sinofsky Now, the, the Office products were relatively new. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:19 Steven Sinofsky The, the first successful version of Office on Windows was, was only two years old.
- ▶ 3:34 Steven Sinofsky Actually, just in Microsoft lingo, it would become Microsoft Office for Windows.
- ▶ 5:13 Steven Sinofsky In fact, it was invented for Excel and on making charts.
- ▶ 8:15 Steven Sinofsky There was a research group, um, in Microsoft Research that was working on a, an actual social interface, a project
- ▶ 8:33 Steven Sinofsky Like, you could fit only two paragraphs of word on the screen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:48 Steven Sinofsky Who, coincidentally, his brother was the development manager for Word, but that was Microsoft back then, like, you know.
- ▶ 10:54 Steven Sinofsky And so, that was really the origin of the next level true assistant with Microsoft Bob. 4 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
- ▶ 13:39 Steven Sinofsky And that was where we tapped into another group at Microsoft Research, um, uh, Stanford-based, um, doing, uh, research on, on using Bayes Theorem and a little bit of NLP, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:14 Steven Sinofsky Right, or in Excel, or in PowerPoint, and, and so we were, like, watching the sequence of events, and so in particular things that would catch our attention, like, try something, undo it, try something, undo it, try something else, undo…
- ▶ 17:14 Steven Sinofsky Right, or in Excel, or in PowerPoint, and, and so we were, like, watching the sequence of events, and so in particular things that would catch our attention, like, try something, undo it, try something, undo it, try something else, undo…
- ▶ 17:52 Steven Sinofsky We're not sending this all back to Microsoft or anything.
- ▶ 18:59 Steven Sinofsky This newly formed group called Office. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:05 Steven Sinofsky Well, there, we had group called Word and a group called Excel and a group across the street in Silicon Valley called PowerPoint. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:05 Steven Sinofsky Well, there, we had group called Word and a group called Excel and a group across the street in Silicon Valley called PowerPoint. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:05 Steven Sinofsky Well, there, we had group called Word and a group called Excel and a group across the street in Silicon Valley called PowerPoint. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 21:50 Steven Sinofsky And so it was a, it was a pretty exciting time, and they basically, that was what they said, hey, let's just go do this, and he partnered with Karen Fries, and with Microsoft Research, and both of those groups came down, worked with Nass… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:11 Steven Sinofsky And, but Bob has started to become more Bob, like the punchline. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:57 Steven Sinofsky And so POGO is like a, uh, it's a VB program in Excel five, uh, which is the 16 bit version of Excel that existed at the time they were shipping. 3 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.
- ▶ 33:33 Steven Sinofsky So one amazing, amazing opportunity that, uh, between, uh, the consumer Bob team and, and Sam that we had was to speak with, um, the, these animators from Walt Disney named Frank and Ollie. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:27 Steven Sinofsky Different characters, like what should be the character for Microsoft Office? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:08 Steven Sinofsky So Mike is this native Oklahoman, worked for IBM for many years before he came to Microsoft, and we're all like, we're going to show this to Mike, and we wonder what he's going to pick.
- ▶ 39:05 Steven Sinofsky We had this dot that was sort of a derivative of some of the work in Bob.
- ▶ 44:18 Steven Sinofsky I just gave my, I just opened PowerPoint, started doing my slides, and.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 49:10 Steven Sinofsky And we, uh, we had lots of discussions about, about the technology, about Microsoft research, about NASA and Reeves, about all of these parts that, that contributed artificial intelligence and all that.
- ▶ 49:52 Steven Sinofsky And so, I did this demo 50 times for reporters, and, and the problem we had was, the Word team was busy building more wizards, just like the Excel team was in the PowerPoint team.
- ▶ 49:52 Steven Sinofsky And so, I did this demo 50 times for reporters, and, and the problem we had was, the Word team was busy building more wizards, just like the Excel team was in the PowerPoint team.
- ▶ 49:52 Steven Sinofsky And so, I did this demo 50 times for reporters, and, and the problem we had was, the Word team was busy building more wizards, just like the Excel team was in the PowerPoint team. 2 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.
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