Windows
includes Windows 95, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows Server, Windows 8, Windows Phone, Windows 3.1, Windows Mobile, Windows 1.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 7 and 2 more
19 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Feb 15, 2022 by Brendan Eich · said 377 times in 17 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Ben Gilbert (227), David Rosenthal (121), Steve Ballmer (19), Mark Zuckerberg (4), Eric Yuan (3), Ben Thompson (2), Brendan Eich (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2025 36 mentions in 4 episodes 9 per episode
2024 318 mentions in 4 episodes 80 per episode
- Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired
- The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner) · Acquired
- Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 6 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Windows, oldest first
Feb 15, 2022 negative
Eich: Microsoft was convicted for threatening Compaq over Netscape bundling
“They had the Windows Monopoly, but what they did in tying the browser to it and threatening Compaq with revocation of the Windows license if Compact Shift Netscape as the default browser was illegal, and they got convicted for it.”
Apr 22, 2024 neutral
Apr 22, 2024 neutral
Apple's 1985 intellectual property license covered all future versions of Windows
“Apple does do a deal to license a lot of quote unquote their intellectual property, which of course came from Xerox, to Microsoft. Apple, I think, was under the impression that it was just for Windows one point oh, but the actual terms of the agreement are thi…”
Apr 22, 2024
Apr 22, 2024 neutral
Apr 22, 2024 neutral
Apr 22, 2024 neutral
Microsoft announced Windows in 1983 prior to the Mac's launch
“Starting in 1983, they're like, we gotta Do our own graphical operating system, or at least user interface, and this is the origins of the Windows product, and they actually announced it in November of 1983 before the Mac ends up shipping, which their partner …”
Jul 22, 2024
Rosenthal: Appellate court permitted Microsoft to bundle IE into Windows in 1998
“Microsoft appeals Judge Jackson's order, and in early May, 1998, the appellate court rules that Microsoft can continue shipping Windows with IE bundled into it, and also continue to bundle any other features that they want as part of Windows, as long as it ben…”
Jul 22, 2024 bullish
Jul 22, 2024 neutral
Jul 22, 2024
Rosenthal: 1994 Microsoft consent decree banned tying but allowed feature integration
“The next year, in July, 1994, Microsoft just settles with them, rather than going to trial. They're like, alright, look, we just wanna be done, we're gonna settle with you DOJ, we're gonna be done with the US federal government here, and in that settlement, th…”
Jul 22, 2024 neutral
Jul 22, 2024
Gilbert: Free ad-supported search makes 3x to 5x more per user than software
“If I could take seven billion people in the world and sell them Windows, or I can take seven billion people in the world and have them use my search engine for free and then make the money from the advertisers, I'm gonna make three to five X more money from th…”
Jul 22, 2024 negative
Gilbert: Microsoft killed new products because of Windows-centric DNA
“You look at Courier, you look at Kin in mobile, you look at all these things that they would let them get so far, and then they'd be like, ah, you guys don't get it. Windows is the center of everything, and if it doesn't make Windows look great or it competes …”
Apr 21, 2025 positive
Jun 2, 2025 neutral
Ballmer: Azure started as PaaS to prioritize Windows developers
“We say we're going to build platform as a service because it's a Windows platform. Infrastructure as a service, a little bit if you think about it, you're sort of by nature accepting everybody's infrastructure. It's by nature, multi quote, multi-platform. You …”
Jun 2, 2025 negative
Jun 2, 2025
Jun 2, 2025
Ballmer: Microsoft's first antitrust inquiry came from FTC over IBM collusion
“This was our first antitrust problem. I don't know if you guys know this, is the FTC at the time thought we and IBM were working to divide the market because we had done some positioning. What's windows good for? What's always too good for? We and IBM had done…”