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How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- ▶ 53:42 Steven Sinofsky You know, I, I came down here, I sat across the table from all the Intel leadership, and I pulled out the first Surface, and I said, here's our new computer, and they got very excited, and then they were like, but what's in here?
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
- ▶ 27:11 Steven Sinofsky And I, we saw it when we were building Surface.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:08:08 David Rosenthal It's the same thing as the Microsoft Surface strategy, why Bomber was so adamant, we gotta make a Surface, we gotta show the OEMs.
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 1:10 Erik Torenberg Um, and you helped introduce the Surface PCs, which is relevant to the, the conversation we're, we're about to have.
- ▶ 31:50 Steven Sinofsky Now, we were there also at one point to help, help get Surface built. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:08 Steven Sinofsky We actually built a whole metallurgy plant to do injective magnesium alloy for the original Surface computer that ran NVIDIA chips and all this other stuff. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:26 Steven Sinofsky And I can tell you, we, like, Surface, there was no chance.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:04:26 Ben Gilbert Surface.
- ▶ 1:04:27 Steve Ballmer Xbox, Surface, phone.
- ▶ 1:16:10 Steve Ballmer I mean, that's what we, that's what I did with surface.
- ▶ 1:17:02 Steve Ballmer And I said, we got to go do surface.
- ▶ 1:52:09 Steve Ballmer I mean, she'll talk about balance, and I would say, we're gonna win with surface.
- ▶ 1:58:20 Steve Ballmer We did, you know, surface was a big disagreement.
- ▶ 2:02:01 Steve Ballmer That's cloud, uh, that's surface, that's some of the improvements in windows.
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:17 unnamed speaker Oh my God, we should build the surface.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:21:54 Ben Gilbert They released Surface, they tried to buy Nokia,
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 3:48:46 David Rosenthal The more personal computing segment, that's Windows and Surface and their hardware efforts, and then the intelligent cloud segment, and that's Azure.
- ▶ 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.
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- ▶ 17:20 Shaan Puri It's called Microsoft and it's a Surface.
a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- ▶ 26:56 Steven Sinofsky When, when we were building Surface and ARM PCs at Microsoft, like one of the things that happened is we showed up and we said, look, when you use ARM chips, the graphics card is like,
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 19:36 Steven Sinofsky And that's exactly earlier on in building Surface.
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 5:14 Benedict Evans They got some portion of HTC's phone engineers and some non-exclusive rights on IP, and, you know, you can see a parallel conversation with Microsoft on the surface.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 1:54 Benedict Evans Microsoft and Google getting into the hardware business as it is to compare the Pixel with the iPhone and to compare the Surface with the Mac because you've got these, so you've got these two different things.
- ▶ 9:27 Steven Sinofsky To me, I think, and like now I'm speaking personally, because there is a reach problem when we were doing Surface, like one of the reach problems was I couldn't do a press briefing with somebody that was running a Windows laptop.
- ▶ 11:42 Steven Sinofsky The graphics on, on the surface are, are the last generation of video, the CPUs on Intel, or the, I mean, on, on the MacBooks are the old ones. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:56 Steven Sinofsky I'm obviously going to go buy a new Surface, and it'll replace the all-in-one Dell that I have, but, you know, if you look at iOS, like, the thing that was most innovative to me about iOS is that 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 9:11 Benedict Evans And therefore raising your fingers to touch something and then dropping your hand back onto the keyboard makes much more, feels much more natural than it does with a surface because the screen is that much further away because it has a…
- ▶ 18:43 Steven Sinofsky I have, like, four laptops at home that are all mine that I just cycle between whether I want to use a really big Surface with a high pixel count screen, a small PC, or a MacBook, and others. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners
- ▶ 3:52 Benedict Evans And so, like, Bosch had this great display where they had, like, 15 different consumer electronics products from the surface to an iPhone to a drone to a Nest, and they all had the same Bosch component sensor, sort of tilt sensor switch or…
a16z Podcast | The Present State and Future Possibility of Virtual Reality
- ▶ 13:15 Kyle Russell So you can see how it could evolve to be, uh, the phone still slots into a headset, but then when you're at home, you plug then that headset into something with all of that horsepower, and it's kind of a, almost like surface-like, it, the…
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 1:13 Michael Copeland Microsoft launched its latest Surface, and the tech community broadly kind of applauded it for moving technology forward. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
- ▶ 3:25 Benedict Evans Also with Apple Pay, you saw it, for example, with the Microsoft Surface.
- ▶ 10:14 Benedict Evans Um, and it's, it both is and is not a Microsoft Surface. 8 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next?
- ▶ 5:33 Steven Sinofsky I mean, certainly on surface, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Engineering a Revolution at Work
- ▶ 17:22 Steven Sinofsky Those things now are enabled by tablets, whether it's surface or an iPad or a, uh, Android tablet, all of those, the form factor has allowed a different level of, of computing.