Stephen Sinofsky
person on 1 show · 4 statements across 3 episodes · said 8 times in 3 episodes since 2019
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Sinofsky: Shenzhen manufacturers build dedicated facilities for 100k-unit laptop commitments
“The PC industry grew up in Shenzhen. And they have these factories where like you show up and if you commit to building, you know, a 100,000 laptops, they will build you a building and they will keep all your IP in the building. They will not cross employees o…”
Sinofsky: CCP members in Chinese offices can access company data centers freely
“When you do business in China, you don't have trade secret. And you're just in the office, and there's the CCP members that work in your office that you're forced to employ that report back to what's going on, and you have no say in that. Like, at the level of…”
Sinofsky: Microsoft used 'stupid computer trick' bug tags for AI glitches
“We had a kind of bug that you could open up with the descriptor stupid computer trick, which was like, the algorithm went nuts.”
Stephen Sinofsky: Legacy desktop OSs cannot retroactively add mobile architecture features
“All the things about power management and security and reliability this whole sealed case notion of the phone and the tablet OS's, these modern OS's, these are huge, huge benefits. And there, there's no way of sort of retroactively adding those to the existing…”