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▶ 12:36 Alex Rampell They don't want to go phone calls back and forth, look at Excel spreadsheets, all of this kind of backwards stuff from 30 years ago.

▶ 13:38 Alex Rampell Now in today's era, iPhone app developers or Android app developers, but this was kind of back in the era of Windows and Mac software.

▶ 10:49 Martin Casado And the reason you never want to do that is often we were like, oh, like there's this big product, let's say it's Windows, and if I'm bundled in Windows, 2 times in the scene
▶ 11:06 Martin Casado So Microsoft is notorious for making multiple billion-dollar businesses of basically shelfware because the consumption behavior didn't change and the consumer behavior didn't change.

▶ 14:48 unnamed speaker People also thought that about Skype, um, so thank you Microsoft in both cases, uh, for proving that we were not complete idiots.
▶ 27:16 unnamed speaker So, Microsoft? 5 times in the scene
▶ 27:31 unnamed speaker This is SQL Server on Linux rented through Azure. 2 times in the scene
▶ 27:31 unnamed speaker This is SQL Server on Linux rented through Azure.
▶ 27:35 unnamed speaker This is Windows not being a product group. 2 times in the scene
▶ 35:34 unnamed speaker And pretty soon you have a organization that looks like the old Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
▶ 42:17 unnamed speaker I'm sure we were all shocked when we saw the news, and it seems like quite a weird one, because I, you know, a company with such a strong network felt like it would be one of the few to come out and, you know, keep going into that kind of… 2 times in the scene

▶ 19:48 Chris Dixon So, you know, the equivalent of the hot dog and 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
▶ 20:52 Chris Dixon Um, you know, the, their famous, their books written about all the stuff that Microsoft did and huge antitrust case and everything else around all the things they did to fight with their compliments, right?
▶ 31:47 Chris Dixon You know, some people just didn't believe in any of it, like, and then a lot of people didn't believe in any of it, and then some people believed in the web, and some people believed in the information superhighway, and the information…
▶ 34:35 Chris Dixon So, an example I like to use, it's not, it's, it's not a strict analogy, but it's Wikipedia versus Encarta. 6 times in the scene
▶ 34:40 Chris Dixon So Encarta was a Microsoft-owned encyclopedia product 2 times in the scene

▶ 1:15 Chris Dixon Um, you know, if you talk, if you look, go look at, like, the Microsoft, you know, the, all their discussions in the nineties, they were worried about Java, and they never, Linux never came up, right?
▶ 6:10 Chris Dixon Uh, we live in a time where I think we have probably the greatest concentration of power, um, in, on the internet that, that I mean, you know, or in the technology world since probably Microsoft at its peak in the nineties.

▶ 6:16 Alex Rampell Yeah, I remember it as, you know, so we had downloadable Windows and Mac software, primarily Windows, and that was kind of going like this, and then it fell off a cliff, and then as we were falling down that cliff, then social gaming was… 2 times in the scene

▶ 2:32 Martin Casado And so the classic example of that is you would have someone like Dell and Intel on the hardware side, and then you would have, you know, the software being provided by Microsoft.

▶ 10:31 Frank Chen So are we going to replay a Microsoft Windows type of environment in which one dominant company licenses its operating system to lots and lots of OEMs?

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