Windows 8, every mention
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Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:33:44 Ben Gilbert And then we're gonna talk about Vista, and then we're gonna talk about Zune, and Search, and Bing, and Windows Mobile, and Windows Eight, and yeah, all that.
- ▶ 2:36:19 David Rosenthal Let's do search, let's do mobile, Windows eight, Zune.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 3:24:20 Ben Gilbert Yeah, so Windows eight vision had kicked off.
- ▶ 3:24:30 Ben Gilbert They're awesome to watch the original vision of what Windows eight should be.
- ▶ 3:27:10 Ben Gilbert So, there's sort of a two birds with one stone attempt with Windows eight.
- ▶ 3:27:51 Ben Gilbert So the Windows eight touch mode Metro UI development environment was HTML five because all these web developers are already writing their web apps.
- ▶ 3:28:04 Ben Gilbert We want to support that too, and we're going to build a whole new tool chain so that their HTML five Windows eight apps run really well on ARM processors, because these tablets are going to run on ARM processors.
- ▶ 3:28:21 Ben Gilbert So that's the two-headed dragon of Windows eight, is new developer platform and touch first.
- ▶ 3:28:34 David Rosenthal The desktop is now just an app, and when you boot up Windows eight, you are presented with a tablet tiled start screen.
- ▶ 3:29:37 Ben Gilbert But what ended up happening was the original vision for the Windows eight touch thing that we're all talking about, these live tiles, that was supposed to only ship for tablets as it was originally dreamed up, and there was a version of…
- ▶ 3:33:19 Ben Gilbert The ecosystem of Windows eight apps did not really galvanize.
- ▶ 3:34:02 David Rosenthal Windows eight.
- ▶ 3:57:38 Ben Gilbert And, basically, it was, hey, we just released Windows eight, we just released the Surface, and we want the marketing message for those things to be that Office is first and best on Windows, and the only tablet in the world that can run…
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 4:21:48 Ben Gilbert And then, yeah, with Longhorn and Windows eight, separate problems, but completely forgot why those franchises have economic value.
- ▶ 4:44:45 Ben Gilbert Steven Sanofsky, who led Windows in Windows seven and eight, and led Office before that.
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 19:15 Ben Thompson But they had to build a team to get apps for Windows eight.
- ▶ 20:05 Ben Thompson Uh, and then Windows eight launched and it kind of sucked after that, but it was fun up until then.