Windows XP, every mention
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The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:57:55 Ben Gilbert And he's working on Longhorn at this point, because it's post XP.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:51 Ben Gilbert The Internet, Windows XP, Xbox, the browser, search, and mobile.
- ▶ 1:17:44 David Rosenthal So then, in November, 2001, just a couple weeks after the Windows XP launch, the DOJ and Microsoft finally, completely settled the case.
- ▶ 1:17:56 Ben Gilbert Also, can we just say, this case is brought against Windows 95, Windows 98 comes out, and then before we have a resolution, Windows XP comes out.
- ▶ 1:21:19 David Rosenthal XP was a huge success.
- ▶ 1:33:38 Ben Gilbert And along with that, release XP, the most successful Windows operating system ever.
- ▶ 1:52:25 David Rosenthal We were using XP, of course.
- ▶ 1:52:28 Ben Gilbert In 2007, you were using XP.
- ▶ 1:58:39 Ben Gilbert So, Windows XP.
- ▶ 1:58:42 Ben Gilbert Why was Windows XP such a big deal?
- ▶ 1:59:11 Ben Gilbert So what was Windows XP technically?
- ▶ 2:00:16 Ben Gilbert And so XP
- ▶ 2:00:52 Ben Gilbert And so you had the NT lineage of, I guess, maybe even you could say it started with OS two, but Windows NT, Windows 2000, and then Windows XP.
- ▶ 2:01:03 Ben Gilbert So everybody's running XP now.
- ▶ 2:01:42 Ben Gilbert But, you know, Windows XP, plenty of people were importing digital photos off their camera to Windows XP.
- ▶ 2:01:51 David Rosenthal A lot of Napster clients running on Windows XP machines.
- ▶ 2:03:44 Ben Gilbert Another thing about Windows XP, there was a new release of Office right at the same time as XP.
- ▶ 2:05:16 David Rosenthal And yes, that is true for all the traditional reasons in the XP timeframe, the reason it was also true in part one of our Microsoft series.
- ▶ 2:06:01 Ben Gilbert And I think this XP time frame is
- ▶ 2:06:10 Ben Gilbert The other thing to know about this XP timeframe is, last episode we talked about the incredible secular growth trend of the PC.
- ▶ 2:06:37 Ben Gilbert The crazier thing is, even as late as 2001 with Windows XP, they were still riding this tailwind.
- ▶ 2:06:57 Ben Gilbert By 1997, 13 years later, it grew to 37%, and after a couple years of XP being in market, 2003, it had grown to 62%.
- ▶ 2:09:31 David Rosenthal So, just like a couple weeks after the XP launch, it was a big time for Microsoft.
- ▶ 2:15:02 Ben Gilbert So, there's a little tail off of XP that'll lead to Vista.
- ▶ 2:15:08 Ben Gilbert So the Windows XP codename, David, was what?
- ▶ 2:15:11 David Rosenthal Whistler.
- ▶ 2:15:42 Ben Gilbert Another reason they had to push the date out was Windows XP for all of its usability and reliability was very insecure, and so Microsoft had a whole thing where they thought they were gonna spend like three months putting out a service…
- ▶ 2:15:55 Ben Gilbert They spent the better part of two years iterating on Windows XP to come out with a release that really people and enterprises could trust as no viruses, you know, this is safe to deploy your enterprise.
- ▶ 2:16:37 Ben Gilbert That sounds like a great name for a modest release to follow XP before we get to the big hard changes that are gonna come in Blackcomb.
- ▶ 2:17:05 David Rosenthal I remember downloading, like, new shells for Windows XP to mimic the Longhorn UI with the sidebar and the clock on the side.
- ▶ 2:19:45 Ben Gilbert Saying the next new release of Windows, which is five years since Windows XP, they really, really are counting on a new version of Windows to drive PC sales, and the one that they're getting requires pretty good GPUs.
- ▶ 2:25:19 Ben Gilbert Even as late as 2009, so three and a half years after launch, something like that, three quarters of corporate PCs are still running XP and had never upgraded to Vista.
- ▶ 2:25:39 David Rosenthal Microsoft had to extend the ability for their OEM partners to keep selling XP machines to consumers for another two years after this.
- ▶ 3:05:01 Ben Gilbert One of which was Bill Gates was always talking about mobile computing, so much so that in the key slide in the Windows XP presentation, one of the big bullet points is mobile computing.
- ▶ 3:07:03 Ben Gilbert Windows XP.
- ▶ 3:23:07 Ben Gilbert Everyone's like, hey, it's like XP, but modern.
- ▶ 4:18:34 David Rosenthal Windows 95, Windows XP, everything we talked about at the beginning of the episode, Internet Explorer, the browser wars, they were the leaders.
- ▶ 4:21:30 Ben Gilbert Yeah, they went from knowing how to ship the most beloved operating system of all time with Windows 95, managing to pretty much do it again, even during the antitrust thing with Windows XP, with, I think, zero blunders in between.
- ▶ 4:47:07 Ben Gilbert And actually, he demoed Windows XP in the way back when, in the launch announcement to Regis Fildman.
- ▶ 4:47:18 David Rosenthal It was Jay Leno for Windows 95 and Regis for Windows XP.
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 51:46 David Rosenthal It's super reminiscent to the Windows XP Bliss wallpaper, you know, that is the most viewed photo in the world.
- ▶ 51:57 David Rosenthal So the story is, the B of A team, when they were first rolling out the program, the guy tasked with card design, he lived in Pleasanton, California, in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, where, you know, it's pleasant, and one…
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:36:16 David Rosenthal And then even more than that, Amazon gets to constantly iterate versus doing these windows XP every four years.