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Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:35:42 Ben Gilbert The other way into Now Assist so it can automatically generate office files like PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets directly from assets and knowledge in the ServiceNow platform.
- ▶ 3:18:33 Ben Gilbert Hmm, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- ▶ 3:19:34 David Rosenthal Excel is still the main way that spreadsheets are done around the world.
- ▶ 3:19:42 David Rosenthal Also use Excel, but if you do use Google Sheets, you are in the minority.
- ▶ 3:19:51 David Rosenthal Enterprise spreadsheet work is done in Excel.
- ▶ 3:58:09 Ben Gilbert What users want is we have a good version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint that people can run on their iPads, and we've decided not to ship it to try and advantage Surface and other Windows eight devices.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 21:25 David Rosenthal Program on, but you weren't clicking around and using Excel or like, you know, pulling up apps.
- ▶ 32:49 Ben Gilbert Who ran Excel and was an executive overseeing office for a long time in the early days.
- ▶ 2:26:28 unnamed speaker Far and away, the first thing to point out is the first version of Microsoft Excel was for the Mac.
- ▶ 2:26:34 unnamed speaker It's especially crazy for all the finance people today who are like, oh, Mac, Excel isn't real Excel.
- ▶ 2:26:39 unnamed speaker Excel has to happen on Windows.
- ▶ 2:26:41 unnamed speaker No, Excel was on the Mac.
- ▶ 2:27:12 unnamed speaker And one of the first ways that they see to bring the graphical user interface to their products is launching Excel for the Mac, because they basically see the way that we got destroyed with Lotus one, two, three,
- ▶ 2:27:27 unnamed speaker We can't compete with Lotus on the IBM PC, so we're gonna shelve Multiplan and kind of start over, and Excel is gonna come out in the graphical user interface, and we're gonna try to be first and best on the GUI.
- ▶ 2:27:39 unnamed speaker And one thing just to underscore here, Excel is the world's first graphical spreadsheet program, and that's why it wins, and that's why it's so important.
- ▶ 2:27:47 unnamed speaker Like, imagine trying to use Excel in the command line interface.
- ▶ 2:27:55 unnamed speaker Yeah, useful, better than nothing, but graphical, charts, cells, visual relationships, this is so important, and Excel is where it all starts.
- ▶ 2:29:22 unnamed speaker But in the meantime, Microsoft, the applications group, is working their ass off to make something really great for the Macintosh, and they come up with Excel.
- ▶ 2:29:35 unnamed speaker And they kind of view Excel and PageMaker as the killer apps, as reasons that people should buy this thing.
- ▶ 2:29:59 unnamed speaker And so I'm not sure this has ever been publicly disclosed before, but Apple spent just as much marketing Excel as Microsoft did.
- ▶ 2:30:19 unnamed speaker Excel coming out for Mac to take advantage of the GUI.
- ▶ 2:30:51 unnamed speaker Excel will be for that.
- ▶ 2:31:34 unnamed speaker Obviously, they're working on Excel, working on other, you know, what would become the Office suite applications, you know, together for Mac.
- ▶ 2:32:08 Ben Gilbert The Excel team is to focus on GUI.
- ▶ 2:32:10 Ben Gilbert The whole marketing message is Excel on a Mac is better than Lotus one, two, three on a PC.
- ▶ 2:33:38 Ben Gilbert By 1988 or 89, it was Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- ▶ 2:33:50 Ben Gilbert And so you don't have the ability to do this, like, very nice copy-paste from an Excel table and just paste that into Word.
- ▶ 2:34:23 David Rosenthal With a graphical user interface like Windows and true multitasking, you can get copy paste from like Excel into PowerPoint.
- ▶ 3:02:28 Ben Gilbert People are doing their work in Excel.
- ▶ 3:08:04 Ben Gilbert All the employees wanted to use Excel and Word, and they just had to figure, they were doing it anyway.
- ▶ 3:08:24 David Rosenthal One, it's the legacy of this bet on the Mac, bet on Excel, and, you know, bet on Windows, you know, shortly thereafter, that enables Microsoft to go into the enterprise because, yeah, even though they've just broken up with IBM and OS two…
- ▶ 3:08:50 David Rosenthal But rather, it's like, hey, thousands of people in your organization are already using Excel.
- ▶ 3:50:52 Ben Gilbert So a lot of the keyboard shortcuts in Excel to this day are there because they were originally the Lotus one, two, three shortcuts, and they wanted people to have the same muscle memory that just worked.
- ▶ 3:51:58 David Rosenthal Like, Microsoft wasn't gonna beat Lotus one, two, three until the graphical paradigm came along, and then Excel being graphical was just obviously so much better.
- ▶ 3:57:51 Ben Gilbert You know, when Microsoft has an install base of a hundred million people using Excel, in this episode, let's just say ten million people who were using Excel, and suddenly some
- ▶ 4:00:44 Ben Gilbert And I worked on a shared experiences team that would check things in that would be a dependency that Word, Excel, PowerPoint, all of them took on the shared code.
- ▶ 4:17:44 Ben Gilbert Pete, I think ran Excel.
Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:56:50 David Rosenthal I still know how to use Excel.