Windows 7, every mention
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Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:21:57 David Rosenthal Let's talk about, let's start with Surface and Windows eight, which we got to talk briefly about Windows seven before that, because Windows seven was awesome.
- ▶ 3:22:29 David Rosenthal So he comes in for Windows seven and he does that for Windows.
- ▶ 3:22:48 David Rosenthal And he comes in, and he makes Windows Seven the Toyota Camry of PC operating systems.
- ▶ 3:23:26 Ben Gilbert I honestly can't tell you a feature that launched in Windows seven.
- ▶ 3:23:31 David Rosenthal I have no idea, but I remember I had a Windows seven laptop when I first joined Madrona and it was great.
- ▶ 3:23:59 Ben Gilbert A lot of what the team was doing with Windows seven was, yeah,
- ▶ 3:24:03 Ben Gilbert yeah, we feel like we can do seven with our arms tied behind our back, but let's start thinking about the future, about what we're really gonna do now that we have all the infrastructure in place to really ship an interesting product.
- ▶ 3:29:58 David Rosenthal That was gonna look like Windows seven, probably.
- ▶ 4:31:18 Ben Gilbert And so in the IBM days, you know, you had Windows and OS II, and in the internet era, you had, like, the web browser versus all the interactive TV stuff, or Longhorn, which was supposed to be little and iterative, versus Blackcomb, which…
- ▶ 4:44:45 Ben Gilbert Steven Sanofsky, who led Windows in Windows seven and eight, and led Office before that.