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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Windows comes up
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
- ▶ 1:13 Garry Tan And so the two job offers I had were, uh, Microsoft for Windows Mobile, which I was pretty excited about, or Expedia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:30 Garry Tan It was like the same thing that got me to go work on Windows Mobile instead of, um, just staying on the thing that I knew and loved.
- ▶ 34:13 Garry Tan Like, I remember when I was 22 working on Windows Mobile, 2 times in the scene
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 17:02 Benedict Evans You know, we get to the point where the S-curve kind of curves up, and it narrows in, and you know, there was a moment when, you know, Windows Phone might have worked.
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 3:44 Eugenia Kuyda And so we started thinking, we got obsessed with this metaphor that the current chatbots are really the Microsoft DOS era for AI interfaces, and that there will be some sort of a Windows Mac OS moment. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 55:34 Amjad Masad So like after Windows 95 that I started making real software.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 10:05 Steven Sinofsky And, and, or now cloud, and so all of these things, you know, Steve Jobs, like, put up a, a slide at the iPhone launch of mobile phone share, but he very deliberately chose to measure it by the manufacturer of phones so that it diminished…
Former Microsoft Executive Explains Where We Are in the AI Cycle w/ Anish Acharya & Steven Sinofsky
- ▶ 1:07 Steven Sinofsky In fact, what, what I might do is even take it further back and just say, since he used an analogy of, like, where we are in computing, and lots of people in talking about the Windows three era and stuff like that, and having lived through…
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 23:59 Steven Sinofsky And all these makers were starting to serve multiple PC companies, and, and then the PC companies were like, hey, this is kind of working for us, because we're crushing Apple in the marketplace, and our PCs are getting cheaper, and people…
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 19:43 Ben Horowitz Um, you know, it's a Windows PC running, Windows, 95, whatever it was, you know, it's that kind of thing.
- ▶ 19:43 Ben Horowitz Um, you know, it's a Windows PC running, Windows, 95, whatever it was, you know, it's that kind of thing.
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 38:52 Marc Andreessen Um, and so the, the rivals, the rivals specifically of the Macintosh, and then followed by that, the arrival of Windows, Windows version three, um, and the, and the first graphical PCs.
The Latest in Cyber Attacks
- ▶ 2:33 Martin Casado I remember you used to be able to buy a PC, you'd take it home, you'd install Windows, and by the time it was actually installed, you'd been compromised, literally.
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 2:22 Steven Sinofsky Um, before when, the big thing is it's before Windows 95.
- ▶ 11:31 Frank Chen The shell, the Windows Explorer.
- ▶ 11:32 Steven Sinofsky Yeah, it was still a program, but there wasn't really Windows 95 yet.
- ▶ 19:18 Steven Sinofsky That was really new, not Windows 95 yet, but we weren't building it.
- ▶ 1:04:48 Steven Sinofsky Well, my dad had Windows 95 when I was, like, 15 years old.
What’s with All the Bio M&A in 2019?: A Quick Take
- ▶ 6:21 Frank Chen Talk to me more about platforms, because especially for our software viewers, platforms mean something like Linux, or the Win-Thirty-Two API, or these days AWS.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 7:13 Peter Ludwig Talking about how, how great Windows Mobile is in comparison to iPhone because it has so many more features.
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 10:26 Frank Chen And here's, by the way, is Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT.
- ▶ 10:26 Frank Chen And here's, by the way, is Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT.
- ▶ 10:26 Frank Chen And here's, by the way, is Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT.
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 35:11 Chris Dixon Um, uh, the, you know, if you just think about your typical experience of a corporate worker in 2018, you go to the office, and maybe you're using Windows 95, and, you know, some archaic, I don't know what, ERP software, and a bunch of…
a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
- ▶ 7:18 Darshan Shankar Oculus, Samsung, Sony with their PlayStation VR, and Microsoft with their new Windows Mixed Reality platform. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 1:03 Benedict Evans But that didn't mean that the mainframe business just kind of evaporated the day after Windows and 95 shipped.
- ▶ 5:35 Steven Sinofsky And for many years, and for a very long tail, those were client-server apps built on, on the Windows platform. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:56 Steven Sinofsky Because you, you could have a, a Windows PC that has a browser in it.
- ▶ 25:05 Benedict Evans Nothing gets run on, you know, Windows PCs on-prem anymore. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | For Your Ears Only
- ▶ 20:36 Matt Spence I mean, right now, I sort of joke, it's like, we only now at the defensive right got a Commodore 64 computer and Windows 95.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 4:10 Benedict Evans And so actually competing with their OEMs, who you could argue don't have anywhere else to go, because Windows Phone has now kind of shrunk away. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:15 Benedict Evans Um, I'm sure you wouldn't object to me saying Windows eight was painful, you know, but you know, well, that it was a hard thing to do.
- ▶ 23:55 Steven Sinofsky And so the fallacy in that argument is, is that there are all of these Mac developers, the, or let's just call them x-eighty-six developers that are either on OS X or on win-thirty-two that are sitting there going, what's the best way for…
- ▶ 24:15 Steven Sinofsky Are on the back of their S curve, and they're in sustain mode, and the last thing they're going to do is rewrite them, which is something, frankly, back in the Windows eight days, we always knew was the case, and the focus we needed was on…
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 8:13 Steven Sinofsky Well, I, I told everybody that because we, when we were doing Windows eight, we, we all started touching our regular laptops.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 11:37 Steven Sinofsky Seven.
a16z Podcast | The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth
- ▶ 36:36 Orion Hindawi If that doesn't work, then I think we're gonna have to see where iOS and Android and Windows Phone go, because they continue to be unmanageable.
a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
- ▶ 15:07 Benedict Evans Um, they sold just over five million units of Windows Phone. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:17 Benedict Evans Um, so Microsoft and what's actually Nadella did, um, would say this is the end of Windows Everywhere. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 15:32 Benedict Evans They're like, the three million ATMs on Earth all run Windows XP until quite recently.
- ▶ 16:47 Benedict Evans And of course, because the reason I mentioned Illumio is because you can plug a screen and a keyboard and a mouse into it, and it's running Windows 10.
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…
a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
- ▶ 15:04 Benedict Evans And this is kind of, it's just kind of inherent in the model, um, that, you know, Microsoft obviously wrote down Windows Phone. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
- ▶ 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…
a16z Podcast | Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
- ▶ 8:32 Benedict Evans And it was slightly reminiscent of what you got on Windows Phone.
a16z Podcast | Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today
- ▶ 15:20 Michael Copeland You know, courageous is, I don't know what, but foolhardy is staying on Windows XP, for example.
a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile's Third OS
- ▶ 1:47 Michael Copeland Windows is doing its thing, and Nokia's, you know, helping them out.
a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
- ▶ 2:36 Benedict Evans And they all contain chips that are much, much faster than a Pentium back when Microsoft launched Windows 95.
a16z Podcast | Virtual Reality v Augmented Reality, and What's Next
- ▶ 8:13 Peter Rubin I mean, as different as, as the two are, but I think that, uh, you know, I think that it may have started that way, but I would imagine that with what they're doing with every device stuff and, and what they're trying to do with windows…
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 0:43 Benedict Evans What's going to happen to Windows Phone? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call
- ▶ 3:34 Alex Stamos Some bad guys figured out the real fundamental problem that the CIOs and the CISOs of these companies have, which is they have a huge physical plant with 50, 60, 70,000 deployed point of sale systems, many of which are still running…
a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
- ▶ 7:59 Benedict Evans I mean, the other interesting strand here is that, you know, right now there are, as it might be, three billion people online, and there's probably about, there'll, by the end of this year, there'll be two billion iOS and Android…
- ▶ 12:21 Steven Sinofsky First, they showed a lot of work happening on tablets, whether they were Windows tablets or, or iPads, and then they showed a lot of work that used to happen in their full suite of applications happening in Adobe Creative Cloud using apps.
a16z Podcast | The Topic That's Lasted the Entire History of Computing -- Bundling and Unbundling
- ▶ 9:59 Benedict Evans Ok, so I've got Siri, or I've got Google Now, or I've got Windows Live tiles.
- ▶ 11:00 Steven Sinofsky I mean, I, I remember, you know, we, we used, we, we did what the Windows seven launch, we, we talked about that there were over 800,000 apps that got used just during the beta process.
a16z Podcast | The Micro and Macro of Mobile
- ▶ 16:44 Benedict Evans I was just going to give another analogy that I used in my blog post, which is if you were to go from 5000, um, amber screen character based mainframe terminals to 10,000, even Windows 3.1 PCs, you could say, well, we've doubled the market…
a16z Podcast | Government Transparency Powered by Software
- ▶ 12:12 Tom Reichert You know, the people are still on Windows XP.
a16z Podcast | The Promise (and Nightmare) of Cross-Platform Software
- ▶ 1:53 Steven Sinofsky And what's fascinating, if you just look at the iOS and Android with, you know, which is only two of the many platforms, including web or Windows Phone or Chrome that, that people are targeting, you know, they just have very different…
- ▶ 11:39 Benedict Evans I mean, they put up a chart yesterday where they said, well, 80% of, um, 40, 50% of Macs are running, um, the latest version of Mac OS, and a much smaller proportion of, um, PCs are running Windows eight. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
- ▶ 14:12 Benedict Evans And, you know, Apple spent the first hour talking about Mac OS, and, you know, from the kind of the broader technology industry, um, they've said they've got eighty million, an install base of eighty million, of which forty million are on… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Valuing Today's Fast-Growing Software Companies
- ▶ 20:21 Scott Cooper So you had customers who were on version, you know, one dot X, you know, you guys probably saw, you know, Microsoft just deprecated, what was it, XP or something the other day. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next?
- ▶ 16:32 Benedict Evans It kind of doesn't look that different, whereas we have no real idea what Mac OS, what iOS or Android are going to look like in five years' time, or what Windows Phone will look like in five years' time.
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 0:33 Michael Copeland Um, there's been a lot of sort of Windows OS, Windows Mobile sort of news out, um, recently, um, out of Mobile World Congress, but
- ▶ 1:40 Benedict Evans Yes, so you've got Firefox, um, you know, playing one rather, um, eccentric business model over on one side, and you have Microsoft's Windows Phone, which is now being combined with Nokia, you know, selling in fairly small numbers in a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:59 Benedict Evans Do you have a Windows Phone app? 3 times in the scene