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Sinofsky: Microsoft could not formally prove to Boeing that Excel actually worked
“I couldn't go to people at Boeing or people at the Navy or wherever in Wall Street and prove that Excel worked.”
Sinofsky: Cornell ignored his proposal to introduce AI into freshman writing
“Three years ago, I tried to get Cornell to use AI in, in freshman writing. When the first, and they just stopped talking to me.”
Sinofsky: Has not used a computer mouse in five years
“I haven't used a mouse in, like, five years,”
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”