Microsoft, every mention
31 scenes (2017), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
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every year 2017 anyone Steven Sinofsky 305Benedict Evans 279Marc Andreessen 73Chris Dixon 67Alex Rampell 60Michael Copeland 42Ben Horowitz 36Martin Casado 35Erik Torenberg 35Frank Chen 27
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
Decrypting Crypto: From Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs
- ▶ 6:19 Alex Rampell So this is actually a much bigger effort than I could even possibly illustrate on a PowerPoint slide.
AI: What's Working, What's Not
- ▶ 24:30 Frank Chen Microsoft Office.
- ▶ 24:31 Frank Chen Oh my god, you saw that room full of people that were the Excel spreadsheet.
10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now)
- ▶ 3:02 Benedict Evans So Microsoft had 45,000 people at the, in 2000. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:37 Benedict Evans So here you see Microsoft's total dominance of the computing industry right up until the iPhone came along and made it pretty much irrelevant to the computing platform side of the industry. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:32 Benedict Evans Everybody you see here is basically a cell in a spreadsheet, and the whole building is an Excel file.
Matthew Turk
- ▶ 4:04 Matthew Turk Now, when people think of augmented reality, they, ah, often think about the devices, ah, because there's a lot of, you know, PR about the devices, ah, head-mounted displays of various kinds, ah, you know, the upcoming HoloLens that most…
- ▶ 9:47 Matthew Turk And, and maybe if you have some great devices like a Microsoft HoloLens or, or a Google Project Tango or whatever, it'll make the experience better.
Jason Mars
- ▶ 1:38 Jason Mars Microsoft has Cortana.
- ▶ 3:14 Jason Mars These kinds of infrastructures are monopolized essentially by companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and so forth.
- ▶ 12:49 Jason Mars I mean, and I think what we've done here that I'm super duper excited about is we've taken a technology that you only find in the biggest companies in Apple, Microsoft, and Google, and we've democratized it.
- ▶ 18:44 unnamed speaker We are really excited to be working with Clarity Labs because they are, ah, in our opinion, they're like our Google Labs or our Microsoft Research
Raluca Ada Popa
- ▶ 13:34 Raluca Ada Popa So for example, Sky High is, um, using all the encryption schemes in CryptDB, and Microsoft recently released a service called Always Encrypted.
Michael Jordan
- ▶ 15:44 Michael Jordan Those were PowerPoint slides. 2 times in the scene
Kathryn McKinley
- ▶ 1:21 Kathryn McKinley And so this is an example of James walking around the Microsoft campus and the different amounts of error that each of these sensors readings gave us.
- ▶ 11:13 Kathryn McKinley You can't go download this code today, but we're working through the open source stuff at Microsoft, and hopefully you'll be able to download it soon.
The Promise of AI
- ▶ 24:08 Frank Chen Microsoft has a system called deep coder that creates software in much the same way that human developers do, which is they go find some sample code and they sort of remix it for their purposes.
Culture and Revolution
- ▶ 23:27 Ben Horowitz The problem with Apple is they need to be more like Microsoft. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:50 Ben Horowitz Google, like had, they built Google Apps, like what, like five years before Microsoft really got going with Office three 65, and Microsoft ran right by them, right by them.
A Whirlwind Tour Through Tech Trends in China
- ▶ 1:56 Connie Chan They use their cell phone to hail a taxi, to pay for that taxi, to order their lunch, to pay for their lunch, to send documents, PDFs, Excel statements, to other coworkers.
The End of Cloud Computing
- ▶ 0:22 Peter Levine If I had stood up here 20 years ago and told you that Microsoft Windows might go away in the future,
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016
- ▶ 2:27 Benedict Evans So the new dominant companies in tech are Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, GAFA for short, and they're about three times the scale of the old dominant companies in tech, which were Wintel, that is to say Microsoft and Intel. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:54 Benedict Evans In parallel, we have Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, other companies putting this into the cloud and making it available as a platform to other people. 2 times in the scene
DJ Kleinbaum
- ▶ 5:48 DJ Kleinbaum Great diversity of different instruments in the lab, and usually the data that is generated by them just sort of lives on their hard drive, or maybe you have, like, a file server that you're just, like, dumping Excel plots on, or something…
- ▶ 11:38 DJ Kleinbaum Because if you're running an order of magnitude or more experiments than you normally would be, just plotting everything in Excel doesn't really do it for you anymore.
Chris Re
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
- ▶ 5:49 Benedict Evans It also means that Microsoft is no longer the dominant force in technology. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:44 Benedict Evans And so you'd ask Microsoft, or Intel, or Nokia, or NTT Docomo in Japan.
- ▶ 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.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2014
- ▶ 2:43 Benedict Evans I don't know what a smartphone might be back in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, um, and we also have complexity in ecosystems because in the past we had Microsoft and then we had the web browser and things were fairly straightforward.
- ▶ 5:56 Benedict Evans The other company that's been affected here, of course, is Microsoft, which has gone from selling the vast majority of connected computing devices to under a quarter, simply because there are so many more phones out there than there are…