Microsoft Excel, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Excel comes up
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 45:28 Ben Gilbert Their whole thing at first was, we're not gonna make a better spreadsheet than Excel, so if we put it in the web, it has to be about sharing collaboration.
- ▶ 45:54 Ben Gilbert You built your big model in Excel.
- ▶ 48:32 David Rosenthal When are you going to add collaboration to Word and Excel, et cetera, et cetera.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 30:55 Steve Ballmer Buy a copy of Windows, buy a copy of Excel, like at an egghead software, it was a software retailer at the time, and bring them in and use them.
- ▶ 43:14 David Rosenthal But you were still picking and choosing, oh, I want Excel, oh, I want, you know, server.
- ▶ 45:05 Steve Ballmer When we created Office, that bill really drove, drove that in a great, I mean, we're selling Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and then we put these things together, and people would complain, and we didn't always sell Office because people say,…
- ▶ 45:22 Steve Ballmer So we don't want Excel included.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:25:05 David Rosenthal We need to model out in Excel exactly what Kaiser's transaction flow is gonna be throughout the day in the system and how our system will process it and prove to them that we have far in excess bandwidth capability to handle their system…
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:12:58 Ben Gilbert And on top of that, someone was tracking some one-off rebates in a separate Excel file.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 1:06:03 David Rosenthal So that's like, I don't know, Excel or like Figma for chip designers.