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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Microsoft Windows comes up on Acquired, the a16z Podcast, Latent Space, Another Podcast, TBPN
Is The Future Customer Experience AI Talking To AI? — With Tony Bates
- ▶ 17:06 Tony Bates We haven't had our Windows moment, and I don't think that it's necessarily going to be a Windows interface, but typing into a chatbot or talking into a chatbot, which is fundamentally where we are today, is pretty rudimentary. 2 times in the scene
Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 34:02 M.G. Siegler How Apple also deals with the marketing here will be fascinating because of course, when they've been asked about this ad nauseum over the past several years with lots of windows, uh, you know, units on the market, uh, touch screen…
I'm Obsessed With Local AI. Here's Why
- ▶ 1:41 Greg Isenberg The hardware could be your MacBook, it could be your Windows laptop, an Android phone, an iPhone, it could be a browser, a Raspberry Pi.
What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- ▶ 50:45 unnamed speaker That's what Windows was. 2 times in the scene
The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
- ▶ 18:28 Anish Acharya Command Line is, we're sort of in the, the DOS era of AI, and for this technology and its capabilities to sort of fully be embraced by consumers, we're going to need the windows, so to say.
Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 1:26:50 Harry Stebbings The worst is, nah, for or against, Nike or Adidas, Apple or Mac, Apple or Windows, you feel something.
What Happens When the AI Boom Runs Out of Money · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 53:07 Ben Thompson The iPod helped them realize that, and going with Windows and all that, but will they fall into a Microsoft-like trap?
AI deployment
- ▶ 18:55 Benedict Evans So, you know, with SAS, you moved from buying the thing one off, doing an installation, doing integration, putting it on prem, putting windows, study to software on everybody's desktop to.
Why The AI Bubble Will Burst: The Most Logical Case — With Paul Kedrosky
- ▶ 26:51 Paul Kedrosky Long ago, whenever Microsoft first launched Windows and some of the early operating systems were coming out, one of the things that happened was people built applications on top of the operating system.
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
Reinventing Insurance Through AI with Shaju Puthussery & Deepak Ramaswamy of Lightspun
- ▶ 8:10 Shaju Puthussery Think of a Windows or an Apple operating system.
Serena & Lily: Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter. They Built a $20M Brand—Then One Investor Almost Destroyed It
- ▶ 3:54 Lily Kanter They were printing cash on Windows and Office like no one's business, because there was no cost of goods sold.
Why AI Creators Keep Panicking (They're Wrong)
- ▶ 20:56 Aaron Levie So, uh, so, and, and Bill Gates and Andy Grove had this dynamic, um, of like, you know, the CPU would get better, and then Windows would just kind of use all the CPU again.
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 39:39 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Windows certainly is not for me. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:49 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) It felt familiar. 2 times in the scene
Cerebras CEO: Why GPUs Can't Do Fast Inference
- ▶ 13:58 Matt Turck NVIDIA had some announcement around just building chips for Windows computers.
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 9:22 Qasar Younis Like, even that sounds trivial, because when you think about, mostly when you think about models, you think about deploying them through a browser or on a phone, and everything's abstracted away, because you have iOS, and you have Android,…
🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- ▶ 7:39 Pat Gelsinger Somewhat optimized for a Windows environment versus an iOS environment, you know, in their, uh, operating system.
Token pricing
- ▶ 10:43 Benedict Evans Sam Altman talked about windows, which is a really bad analogy because windows had network effects. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:51 Benedict Evans Or you can say, well, this is what happened with Windows.
- ▶ 15:08 Benedict Evans And so in the days when of the PC in the 19 nineties, if you were a developer and you wanted to make an app and get customers, you had to make it for windows because that was where all the users were. 3 times in the scene
IBM's AI Rollercoaster, Demis Calls for AI Watchdog, NY Pauses AI Data Centers | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:33 unnamed speaker So, the IBM PC ran Windows and used an Intel chip 3 times in the scene
AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
- ▶ 7:33 David Sacks So if you want to think about like the Microsoft example, they had the Windows monopoly and then systematically they went and dominated every lucrative category of business software.
Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
- ▶ 36:17 Ben Horowitz By putting windows on the internet when it wasn't ready to be on the internet, um, because it wasn't built for that kind of idea.
Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 25:00 Dylan Field Um, it's like, what's the GP of everything created on windows? 3 times in the scene
How 3 Friends From Coimbatore Run Olympics and Super Bowl | The Untold Amagi Story
- ▶ 59:57 Baskar Subramanian So I remember getting to college and looking at that stuff where Windows, I think, was launched, not even, was launched.
World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
- ▶ 1:10:10 Jason Calacanis It wasn't that difficult to turn on a Windows PC, right?
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:27 Aravind Srinivas That's something far more efficient that can run on, on, on people's local devices, you know, MacBooks, their Windows PCs.
The Simple Genius of Jony Ive
- ▶ 44:18 David Senra Still, the seeds of the iPod successes were shown with the first device and Johnny was confident in the new product.
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 14:08 Benedict Evans Windows and iOS did, but they were doing something else. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:36 Benedict Evans No more than, like, Microsoft or Apple could build every Windows app or every iPhone app. 2 times in the scene
⚡️Making DeepSeek v4 outperform Opus 4.7 with Taste — @AhmadAwais , CommandCode.ai
- ▶ 38:29 Ahmad Awais One is, it's like Windows and every game works with it.
We Need An Ecosystem in AI, And Every Company Can Win A Place In It
- ▶ 12:34 Satya Nadella It was true with Windows.
- ▶ 15:11 Satya Nadella So when like Windows obviously came out,
Microsoft Takes on Frontier AI with Project Solara, OpenClaw, and More at Build 2026 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:49 unnamed speaker Although I love PCs and I love Windows for gaming, I don't, I've never been like a run my whole life in Outlook and Microsoft Teams and all of that.
Satya Nadella on AI: @NoPriorsPodcast x Latent Space Crossover Special at Microsoft Build 2026
- ▶ 11:46 Satya Nadella It was true with Windows. 2 times in the scene
GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle
- ▶ 1:15:25 Kyle Daigle Made worked well on windows, like what that would look like. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:54 Kyle Daigle Like, um, you know, a Mac device or a Linux device and you're like, okay, I don't use windows. 2 times in the scene
Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- ▶ 19:44 Walden Yan Have you had customers where they needed like Mac OS specific VMs or like Windows specific VMs? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:19 Walden Yan I think we asked it to, like, rebuild, like, a Windows OS system.
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 34:52 Ivan Burazin And most of them, most of that work is actually still locked into legacy apps inside of Windows, which is not going anywhere for a very, very long time. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:20 Shawn Wang But I mean, it's very clear the market opportunity is huge in Windows and you can go for a long time on, on just Windows.
- ▶ 50:23 Ivan Burazin Everything outside of what's under a feature flag today, which is like the Windows stuff, GPU stuff, whatever it is in this open source.
The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
- ▶ 11:28 Ivan Borzin But most of knowledge work is still locked into legacy apps inside of windows for the vast majority, like the absolute vast majority. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:27 Ivan Borzin It could be a windows, a Mac, an Android.
- ▶ 49:35 Ivan Borzin It's like, oh, I need a windows and it'll spin up this one.
The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied Intuition
- ▶ 17:18 Peter Ludwig If you try to, imagine you try to run Microsoft Windows, uh, like streaming your sensor data in,
AI-Native Engineering: 100% adoption, 5x search throughput, unlimited tokens — Mikhail Parakhin
- ▶ 2:34 Mikhail Parakhin Uh, that was, yeah, my previous role at Microsoft was the, I actually was the CEO of one of Microsoft's business units, which included, as I, you know, as we discussed, all the things that people like to laugh about, including Windows, and…
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
- ▶ 46:05 Felix Rieseberg So it's a way to build applications that more or less work and look the same on both windows and Mac OS.
Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
- ▶ 23:36 Steven Sinofsky During open source, like, we met in a conference room this big and debated how much open source we could use in Windows or Office.
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 4:08 Balaji Srinivasan It's, it's like somebody who doesn't change the Windows default desktop wallpaper, right?
- ▶ 56:51 Balaji Srinivasan Windows and Apple are still releasing things.
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 33:26 Marc Andreessen Like, so, so, because there were all these different, you know, theories, all these different operating systems and mainframes, and then, you know, all these windows and Mac and all these things, and then there was this, but kind of behind… 2 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Apple Exec on How Apple Builds Products That Actually Win
AI Is Coming for Your Memes, Crypto’s Quantum Clock, Axios Hack| Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:29 John Coogan An exec sync to evade static analysis, uh, executes decoded shell, shell commands, stages and copies payload files into OS temp, and Windows program data directories deletes and renames artifacts post-execution to destroy forensic evidence. 2 times in the scene
The Axios Supply Chain Attack Explained
- ▶ 2:16 unnamed speaker Uh, executes decoded shell, shell commands, stages and copies payload files into OS temp, and Windows program data directories deletes and renames artifacts post-execution to destroy forensic evidence.
- ▶ 4:33 unnamed speaker They built separate versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 1:07:00 Ashmeet Sidana You know, IBM lost control of the platform, even though they were the single largest company, and they're the ones who gave the contract to Microsoft, uh, to develop DOS and then eventually Windows.
I fixed OpenClaw so it actually works (full setup)
- ▶ 10:29 Moritz Kremb So it's, it then kind of becomes a question, you know, it's like, why would you use a Linux over, uh, over windows?
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 2:05 Benedict Evans That's how Windows and Google and Facebook and Instagram and TikTok and iOS, what we're kind of used to in tech is that software by definition has no capital or very little capital, but it has network effects. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 1:00:57 Alessio Fanelli You know, like, I mean, I used to, you know, people used to do it virtualizing like Kali Linux, you know, Windows machine.
- ▶ 1:02:13 Felix Rieseberg And I still am very upset that I can run all of Windows in JavaScript and launch Microsoft Excel inside the virtualized JavaScript Windows on your machine and do things that pro 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:31 Shawn Wang So, so like, like you said, right, let's say a target machine is whatever is a default spec windows laptop. 3 times in the scene
The $600B Grocery Market Is Obsessed With Speed — FirstClub Is Betting on Quality | Ayyappan
- ▶ 7:12 Ayyappan Rajagopal The consumers that time used to be asking for, I want a keypad because largely it was a business smartphone, that's what it used to be called as, right, when Nokias and the Windows used to exist, Blackberries used to exist.
Oracle Rips, Larry Ellison's 1997 Vanity Fair Article, Global Fertilizer Crisis | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:40 unnamed speaker It doesn't have to use Microsoft's omnipresent Windows operating system. 2 times in the scene
Wiz: $6M Seed → $32B Exit | Inside the Biggest Cybersecurity Deal Ever · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 8:32 Gilly Raanan You know, I got, uh, you know, a Commodore 64, and, you know, it was pre-Windows, pre-DOS era, and
- ▶ 56:25 Gilly Raanan So if, you know, Windows operating system is new, then you need Windows operating security. 2 times in the scene
Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next
- ▶ 5:43 Mike Cannon-Brookes A bunch didn't make it, you know, from, I don't know, Windows to, to the internet era or whatever, whichever era you want to say, no one is going to say, I think that a hundred out of a hundred SaaS companies are going to make it through,…
Anthropic v. DoW, Paramount wins WB, OpenAI raises $100B | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:05 John Coogan It's just a, it's just a service like an Excel sheet, like, uh, Microsoft Windows installation, like a car.
FULL BREAKDOWN: Trump BANS Anthropic
- ▶ 5:08 John Coogan It's just a, it's just a service like an Excel sheet, like a Microsoft Windows installation, like a car.
Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:20 Eran Zinman Uh, people initially built for, you know, a desktop application on Windows.
The end of the network effect
- ▶ 1:27 Benedict Evans Consumer computing has been based on network effects, that we had Windows and Intel, and then we had, with the web, we had Google, and then Facebook, and Amazon, and then the things that Facebook bought, and we had the iOS and Android,…
- ▶ 5:42 Benedict Evans And you look at the stuff that OpenAI have published, and they say, well, yes, this is going to work like Windows. 3 times in the scene
Dylan Patel Explains the AI War While Cooking | In-Context Cooking
- ▶ 29:29 Dylan Patel Uh, Microsoft through, you know, Windows plus Office, three, six, five plus Azure, right? 2 times in the scene
Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 1:19:11 Shawn Wang Yeah, yeah, like, you know, there's, there's, like, all these Windows users, and you don't talk to them, right?
OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:05 Alexander Emberikos For instance, there's none that exists on Windows.
Super Bowl Ad Reactions, ChatGPT launches ads, Jordi vs France | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:10 John Coogan Somebody said this is a, this is a Windows computer running a, running Mac or something.
What Mistake Founders Make With A-Players | Matt MacInnis | COO Rippling
- ▶ 55:07 Matt MacInnis We then emerged, obviously, through, like, MS-DOS into Windows, and Windows and the Macintosh interface, sorry, introduced the graphical user interface, which then became an ever-evolving standard from the mid-nineteen-eighty's until the…
Anthropic-OpenAI war, Walmart hits $1T, Gas Town & Vibecoding | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:27 John Coogan I want to see what the battle between, uh, Mac, Apple and Windows looked like. 5 times in the scene
AI Expert: Agents Will Take Over Everything · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 20:22 Kevin Mandia You have to know Windows.
Anthropic Declares War on OpenAI in Scrappy Super Bowl Ads
- ▶ 14:54 unnamed speaker Uh, Mac, Apple, and Windows looked like. 5 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Dylan Patel Says We’re Still Underestimating AI
- ▶ 29:58 Dylan Patel Whether it was like, hey, they didn't use Windows, they figured out a bootlegging economy, or they didn't use Visa, and eventually they came out with like Alipay, and WeChat Pay, or whatever it's called, and like, these things are way…
I got a private lesson on Claude Cowork & Claude Code
- ▶ 3:36 unnamed speaker Um, you know, windows coming soon.
Satya Nadella on AI’s Business Revolution: What Happens to SaaS, OpenAI, and Microsoft?
- ▶ 1:39 Jason Calacanis You made a very bold move from Microsoft to put that in the Windows product, which I use every day, on the desktop, but you did that before it really could recognize the file system and interact with applications.
- ▶ 10:37 Satya Nadella I have to make sure we're doing a fantastic job of doing hot patching on Windows is done with quality, uh, while at the same time building the evals that are improving co-pilot quality, right?
- ▶ 24:14 Jason Calacanis Secretly, and you can say it here since we're on all in, working on an LLM to exist on the Windows desktop because that you are.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: Future Of AI Devices, AI Fashion, Blending Reality and Computing
- ▶ 29:51 Cristiano Amon Agents for Windows.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:54 unnamed speaker And that's a lot, you know, I mean, the office windows offices, I used to know the 50, sixty billion, but, um, yeah, it's a, it's a big flood of revenue.
Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN
AI Enterprise - Databricks & Glean | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 24:51 Ali Ghodsi That's not the case with your, you know, your iPhone versus Android, or your Windows versus your Mac, or your anything versus anything.
OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
- ▶ 38:21 Alex Kantrowitz Um, I am someone who is actively using the AI features across Google, Android, and Microsoft Windows on a day-to-day basis, and the delta between the two companies is growing wider.
AI and the Death of the 2021 Sales Playbook with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 33:20 Jason Lemkin I know I'm really dating myself, but for fun, when we launched EchoSign, DocuSign, which is like an eighteen billion dollar company today, it only worked in Windows, and only was partially web-based.
Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- ▶ 49:49 Alexander Embirikos And what's quite cool is that, uh, you know, we, we shipped Atlas on, on Mac first, but now we're working on the Windows version. 3 times in the scene
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 11:28 Benedict Evans And then the second half of the stream is, oh, and here's our API stack that's going to enable 100,000 of new software developers just like Windows.
- ▶ 30:24 Benedict Evans And the app, Windows apps are basically just kind of thin Win-thirty-two wrappers.
- ▶ 48:15 Benedict Evans But the interesting candle example here would be to think about what happened to Microsoft in the 2000, which is the entire dev environment gets away from them and no one builds Windows apps after like 2001 or something, but you need to… 3 times in the scene
AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
- ▶ 8:44 Ranjan Roy Now, anytime, I remember, like, using a friend's Windows computer, and I had not touched Windows in a long time, and I was like, oh, wait, this is actually, 2 times in the scene
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