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Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 16:53 David Rosenthal Then, and this sort of exponential growth theme, the very next month, in February, 1994, Bill's technical assistant slash shadow, which is a legendary role at Microsoft, now exists at Amazon, too, a man named Steven Sinofsky goes on a…
- ▶ 17:54 David Rosenthal And this is what absolutely floors Stephen.
- ▶ 18:46 David Rosenthal When I heard Stephen talk about what was happening at Cornell, I began to take the internet quite seriously.
- ▶ 18:52 David Rosenthal So Stephen and Bill organize an internet offsite, quote unquote, with all the top execs, with Jay, Bill, Stephen, everybody who's investigating this internet thing.
- ▶ 28:24 David Rosenthal So Bill Gates and Steven Stanofsky, they go and meet with Booklink in May of 1994.
- ▶ 30:12 Ben Gilbert So, as with all of these things, it's not just like Bill Gates and Steven Sanofsky are having a think, and the rest of Microsoft is sitting around waiting for the think to finish, and then an edict comes down, and then they go and do the…
- ▶ 1:51:30 Ben Gilbert Office got to this point where, and I think Steven Sanofsky even writes about this in Hardcore Software in his book and on his Substack, that at some point, they were trying to ship features that the PMs thought were great and users would…
- ▶ 2:44:48 David Rosenthal So, in 2008, Microsoft puts a deal on the table that gets bid all the way up to forty seven billion dollars to buy Yahoo.
- ▶ 3:22:05 David Rosenthal So Steven Sanofsky, he ends up running office product management.
- ▶ 3:22:10 David Rosenthal After the Vista disaster, he gets drafted to come over and run Windows.
- ▶ 3:22:21 David Rosenthal That was the culture that Steven set.
- ▶ 3:22:29 David Rosenthal So he comes in for Windows seven and he does that for Windows.
- ▶ 3:22:35 David Rosenthal We were talking to him and he had this great analogy of Windows at this point in time didn't need technical vision.
- ▶ 3:22:48 David Rosenthal And he comes in, and he makes Windows Seven the Toyota Camry of PC operating systems.
- ▶ 3:23:40 Ben Gilbert And so the product that Sanofsky shipped there was just as much the new organization as it was the actual product that customers experienced.
- ▶ 3:24:27 Ben Gilbert Actually, Steven puts these videos on YouTube.
- ▶ 4:44:45 Ben Gilbert Steven Sanofsky, who led Windows in Windows seven and eight, and led Office before that.
- ▶ 4:44:53 Ben Gilbert And David, you read quite a bit of Stephen's words to prepare for this.
- ▶ 4:45:06 David Rosenthal We talked to Stephen for a few hours.
- ▶ 4:45:15 Ben Gilbert She worked closely with Steven in Office and also on Windows.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:18:37 David Rosenthal Also speaking of former Microsoft folks who are very active on and prolific on Twitter, we talked to Steven Sanofsky who had
- ▶ 4:18:50 Ben Gilbert I read, like, 20 of Stephen's hardcore software posts, and then when David and I were dividing up what belongs in what episode, I realized, like, 19 of them belong in next episode.
- ▶ 4:19:00 Ben Gilbert So Stephen, thank you for your, um, early prep work for part two.
- ▶ 4:19:05 David Rosenthal So much fun internet stuff to talk with that Stephen was right there for.