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Microsoft gets requests for GPUs almost every hour of the day
“It's you know, hours in the day that go by where someone's not asking for GPUs is almost non-existent.”
Matthews: Minecraft Education reaches millions of monthly players across 119 countries
“Minecraft education is now in a 119 countries, and we've got Millions of players every month”
Shum: Longest XiaoIce conversation lasted over 29 hours and 7,000 turns
“Incredibly, the longest conversation any human user ever talked to XiaoAis is actually over 29 hours of 7000 turns.”
Shum: Microsoft's XiaoIce social chatbot has 120 million monthly active users
“Ah, XiaoEyes now is very popular, ah, with a hundred twenty million, ah, monthly active users.”
Sinofsky: Microsoft demoted Clippy's interactivity in Office 2000
“So what we ended up doing was, the next release of Office, which became Office 2000, we sort of demoted Clippy, and reduced his interactions, or its interactions, or her interactions some”
Sinofsky: Clippy had only ~30 animations due to floppy disk space constraints
“Plus we could only have like, you know, 30 different little animations, like types of things like here's waving or smiling or looking, thinking or whatever. And each one can only have a few frames. Right. Because we had to fit on the floppies.”
Ehrensvärd: Mozilla and Microsoft are adding native hardware security key support
“Google was the first. Mozilla is coming on board. Microsoft is coming on board.”
Spisak: Microsoft has shifted its strategy from mobile-first to AI-first
“And Microsoft has switched from a mobile first over to an AI first now as well.”
Harris: Negotiating mobile privacy standards with tech platforms avoided regulation
“Over the course of six months, we worked out, I think, an all too rare example of government and industry coming together to solve a problem. Short of regulation or litigation or legislation. And what we did is we came up with an understanding that would, that…”
Primack: Top five companies by market cap are all tech companies
“If you look at the top five Stocks, I think, or top five companies in terms of market cap now are tech companies, whereas just five years ago, I think only Microsoft was in that group.”
Sinofsky: Microsoft used 'stupid computer trick' bug tags for AI glitches
“We had a kind of bug that you could open up with the descriptor stupid computer trick, which was like, the algorithm went nuts.”
Hobson: Microsoft's valuation multiple once dropped to 10x earnings
“Microsoft was in that from an earnings, from a P ratio, absolutely, I think got down to 10 times.”
Zetter: Microsoft uses civil lawsuits to dismantle botnets and malicious IP infrastructure
“We've seen this a couple of times with Microsoft, where they've gone to, ah, they filed a civil action court in order to get certain IP addresses or hosting companies taken down in order to control botnets and other malicious activities that's sort of, ah, con…”
Chen: Microsoft DeepCoder builds software by remixing code samples
“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.”
Evans: Tech giants occupy the top five spots by market valuation
“Today, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and yes, Microsoft are all the five, are the five biggest companies on the stock exchange.”
Microsoft adopted Chris Ré's Hogwild algorithm for its Project Atom
“A while ago, last year, Microsoft released their Project Atom, and they had a great demo where they were showing they were releasing, you know, recognizing Shih Tzus with Windows phones. Using deep learning. And the reason I will love Microsoft forever is the …”
Sinofsky: Early 1990s Microsoft assumed home and work software were distinct markets
“And it was in that era when we thought what you used at home would just be so dramatically different than what you used at work.”
Microsoft used costume actors and Flash animations to publicly retire Clippy
“Lisa Gurry on the office marketing team, like, had this, like, let's really go crazy. Yeah. And, like, actually, Like, have a retirement party, and so we went, we flew down to San Francisco, we met with the press to tell them this, and then at one point we jus…”