Microsoft Office, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Office comes up
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:07:36 Ben Gilbert I mean, amazing productivity apps on the web, but they lacked enterprise features for years, leaving the door open for Microsoft to catch up and respond with Office.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 42:36 David Rosenthal Office.
- ▶ 46:24 David Rosenthal Yep, and IT departments will buy it, and especially for productivity software, really all the money is in B to B and work applications, and so if IT departments are buying the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, they're getting everything good…
- ▶ 48:11 David Rosenthal And in this instance, particularly with Office and productivity, really this is about putting the screws to Microsoft a little bit.
- ▶ 48:26 David Rosenthal If this gets Microsoft all spun up, Microsoft is now all of a sudden getting asked all the time, what's your web strategy for office?
- ▶ 50:03 David Rosenthal So fast forward to today, it's hard to get real actual apples to apples data on Google Workspace versus Microsoft Office users, but basically the way to think about the market is that Google has the vast majority of users and usage of…
- ▶ 50:29 Ben Gilbert Is that true that there's more active users of Google Workspace than there is of Office?
- ▶ 50:45 David Rosenthal Office, I think, has a couple hundred million users worldwide.
- ▶ 51:01 David Rosenthal Productivity and business process segment, which is mostly office.
- ▶ 51:36 David Rosenthal Office is the big piece.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 7:01 Steve Ballmer And the truth of the matter is Microsoft office slash M three 65, whatever exactly it's called today is super important.
- ▶ 41:04 Ben Gilbert And that's of Windows, that's of Office, that's of.
- ▶ 43:17 Steve Ballmer We were encouraging you to buy Office.
- ▶ 45:03 Steve Ballmer Let's start with Office.
- ▶ 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,…
- ▶ 47:02 David Rosenthal So at a certain point along the way, you get to, well, I want to say the Holy Trinity, but I think there are more than three pieces of this, but the real killer suite in enterprises, which is Windows, Windows Server, Active Directory,…
- ▶ 47:29 David Rosenthal You know, your users, they do their email on Outlook, which is part of Office, which runs on Windows, which uses Exchange, which uses Active Directory.
- ▶ 49:38 Steve Ballmer I wanted it to call it the back office because you needed to buy the office and the back office, and the user, the consumer, saw the office, and the back office were the things that were in
- ▶ 50:51 Steve Ballmer Open source software for Office is competing with Office.
- ▶ 52:12 Steve Ballmer But you also extend Office.
- ▶ 52:48 Steve Ballmer Office was the best first party app on windows, and that's how things get good.
- ▶ 54:39 Steve Ballmer Is it Office or is it all developers?
- ▶ 54:50 Steve Ballmer You have to be able to communicate that you really care about developers who are not your own, that you really want these things because they may think, oh, it's all about running Microsoft office.
- ▶ 1:07:08 Steve Ballmer The office three, what's now M three, 65, the office backend, because that got critical mass as a cloud infrastructure before Azure did.
- ▶ 1:07:08 Steve Ballmer The office three, what's now M three, 65, the office backend, because that got critical mass as a cloud infrastructure before Azure did.
- ▶ 1:31:42 Steve Ballmer I'm going to call the desktop business, which I include windows and office.
- ▶ 1:33:58 Steve Ballmer It's kind of like us adding things to Office and redoing the EA and
- ▶ 1:35:52 Steve Ballmer Or office
- ▶ 1:36:56 Steve Ballmer We put Office on the Mac by then.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:45:16 Ben Gilbert Microsoft Office.
- ▶ 3:45:18 David Rosenthal Microsoft Office.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 2:10:29 David Rosenthal It's, I don't know, some company that's not a tech company somewhere in the world running their Outlook server on Office