Windows, every mention
14 scenes (2022), the whole family · ← back to Windows
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every year 2022 anyone Ben Gilbert 227David Rosenthal 121Steve Ballmer 19Mark Zuckerberg 4Eric Yuan 3Ben Thompson 2Brendan Eich 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Windows comes up
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 1:14:30 Ben Gilbert Which, by the way, I think that's why I'm so drawn to the NVIDIA story, is because that is what they, sort of like, these bet the company big innovations, or like Apple with the Mac and the iPod and the iPhone, or Microsoft with Windows…
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.
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.
- ▶ 1:37:46 Ben Gilbert One is that the Windows group just had too much power, and between them and the Windows Server people and the SQL Server people,
- ▶ 1:37:53 Ben Gilbert The goal of those groups was to get customers to do more with this idea that people thought was going to be big for a while, PCs taking over the data center, and PC operating systems becoming the data center operating system, and really…
- ▶ 1:38:27 Ben Gilbert But they did eventually realize that they had to make a big bet on Azure and totally separate from Windows Server.
- ▶ 1:38:49 Ben Gilbert They realize, okay, Azure needs to be a thing that's kept separate and has CEO sponsorship and can sort of escape the Windows Server thing.
- ▶ 1:39:15 Ben Gilbert What they should have done is gone to everyone that was using Windows Server and say, great news.
Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner) · Acquired
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 22:46 Ben Gilbert We're like a year and a half from windows.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 19:02 Brendan Eich Meanwhile, they were bundling it with Windows, uh, 95 and then 98, and they got convicted in the USB-Microsoft case for this because it's not illegal to acquire Monopoly through, let's say, Merit or a sweetheart deal with IBM to be the OS…