Microsoft Word, every mention
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every year anyone Ben Gilbert 11David Rosenthal 6Steve Ballmer 1Michael Lewis 1Jason Calacanis 1Howard Marks 1Ben Thompson 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Word comes up
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:02:35 Michael Lewis If what's on the page interests me enough to put it in, uh, in, uh, in a Word document,
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 48:32 David Rosenthal When are you going to add collaboration to Word and Excel, et cetera, et cetera.
- ▶ 48:38 Ben Gilbert My internship was at Microsoft and I worked on adding headers and footers to the Microsoft Word web app.
- ▶ 49:47 Ben Gilbert It was like, but what if I haven't bought word?
- ▶ 49:50 Ben Gilbert Can I just use word for free in the web then?
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 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,…
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:18:33 Ben Gilbert Hmm, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 2:10:04 Ben Gilbert Charles Simone would go on, this is an aside, to write Microsoft Word, and Charles was at Xerox PARC,
- ▶ 2:19:26 David Rosenthal And so he leads the teams that create Word and Multiplan, Microsoft's first spreadsheet.
- ▶ 2:30:32 unnamed speaker Meanwhile, also in the applications group, Charles Simone has written Word.
- ▶ 2:30:39 unnamed speaker Microsoft Word comes out for DOS.
- ▶ 2:30:53 unnamed speaker We wanna develop Word.
- ▶ 2:33:06 Ben Gilbert And so what you've got here on the Mac in the first version of Office is Word, which they've developed in-house, File, Chart, and Multiplan.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 3:48:45 David Rosenthal Time and money and resources you have to spend to localize Microsoft Word into kanji.
- ▶ 3:48:51 David Rosenthal It's a lot less time and resources and money than developing Microsoft Word.
- ▶ 3:59:24 David Rosenthal Like, I want this Microsoft Word document that I just worked on for you to be able to open it and use it too.
- ▶ 3:59:48 David Rosenthal If I'm a law firm, you know, I want my clients to be able to open my word docs.
- ▶ 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.
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:43:30 Ben Thompson AWS is the Microsoft word of cloud providers in that they have an absolute absurd number of features and the interface is pretty terrible, but every single customer is completely dependent on one of those features.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 1:22:20 Jason Calacanis It's like making Microsoft Word, one point
Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value · Acquired
- ▶ 1:29:52 Howard Marks I said, I only want Excel and Word, and that's all I had, but that was 95.