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“Command Line is, we're sort of in 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.”

“Apple for the longest time Was the undisputed leader in that, especially when you compared it to Windows, which was the epitome of having no taste, of having no sensibilities about how things should look, and having no cohesive vision for what a computer shoul…”

“And the misconception that I had, and I think a lot of people in the Linux world have had, if we just make it as close to Windows or Mac as possible, then they'll come. But no, they won't. Why would you want, again, the Timo version of Mac or of Windows? I don…”

“Sam Altman talked about windows, which is a really bad analogy because windows had network effects. He also talked about water companies and electricity companies, which are like completely the opposite. They're regulated utilities with crappy margins selling …”

“When it went from vandalism to theft, the vandalism company, Microsoft, is one who created all the theft opportunities By putting windows on the internet when it wasn't ready to be on the internet because it wasn't built for that kind of idea.”

“Chip companies didn't capture the value. ISPs didn't capture the value. Mobile network operators didn't capture the value. Windows and iOS did, but they were doing something else.”

“They also really kind of cool integrated it like directly into windows and they have a new long running agent called scout. That's based on open Built on Openclaw.”

“And the only option right now is an EC two with Windows or on, on, on Azure. Both of them take anywhere from three to five minutes to spin up. We've created an actual sandbox. So it's a second instead of milliseconds, but you have like point in time snapshots,…”

“And from, if anyone in Apple is listening, I very much feel that they are shooting itself in the foot of the scale of the revenue of compute or licensing they could get if they would just enable A concurrency model similar to what you can get on a Windows and …”

“Not only did we do it for the Mac, but we also did it for Windows. And so it opened Apple to a We have a whole new ecosystem of customers that had never used our products before, but were using iTunes and iPod for the first time.”

“What we're doing on Windows, we're using the Windows, Windows host compute system. It's the same thing that WSL two runs on, like the Windows subsystem for Linux.”

“We're basically the only company that cares about OS level sandboxing for coding agents. For instance, there's none that exists on Windows. We're the ones building that and we're doing it in open source, so hopefully other people can use it.”

“There is something good here worth saving. I don't quite know how to express it, but it has to do with the fact that Apple is the only alternative to Windows, and that Apple can still inject some new thinking into the equation.”

“If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would never have had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them either.”

“I still feel like ChatGPT feels a little bit like MS-DOS. We haven't built Windows yet, and it will be obvious once we do, but, you know, there, there's something that feels a little bit like, imagine MS-DOS, like, gone viral, and you were just trying to, like…”

“A lot of people, once again, over 80% of developers are on Windows.”

“I am a Microsoft loyalist now. And I was like the old school, like hate on windows kind of guy, you know, and now I use windows almost exclusively for like even work. Fortunately, I just don't need to log into certain things, and I love it. Like, I actually th…”

“This was our first antitrust problem. I don't know if you guys know this, is the FTC at the time thought we and IBM were working to divide the market because we had done some positioning. What's windows good for? What's always too good for? We and IBM had done…”

“Our first big Windows customer, at least as I remember it, was the US Air Force, and they were buying single copies of Windows.”

“I don't think we stuck with windows too long. I think what we did is we tried to put windows in places that it didn't naturally go, and we tried to be too windowsy, both in the API and the UI in some things.”

“We say we're going to build platform as a service because it's a Windows platform. Infrastructure as a service, a little bit if you think about it, you're sort of by nature accepting everybody's infrastructure. It's by nature, multi quote, multi-platform. You …”

“And on the back of that in 1992, they launch Epic Care, which I believe is the first graphical user interface like Windows based EMR application in the entire industry.”

“Things like it will now be able to take control of your mouse on windows, navigate around, show you, for example, where to turn on a particular setting or to fill out a form or like you may not know how to edit a photo and it'll point out where you need to adj…”

“The tricky thing is it's pretty clear that OpenAI, Anthropic, and you know, Windows, Apple, iOS, Android. Like, this is sort of how the OS almost inevitably will work, assuming that people still make software.”

“Like our future is basically turning Mac OS and we also now expanding the windows and iOS and really like a AI native operating system.”

“AMD works horribly on Windows. Like, on Linux, it works fine. It's lower than the price equivalent NVIDIA GPU. But it works, like, you can use it, generate images, everything works. On Linux, on Windows, You might have a hard time”

“A lot of people, once again, over 80% of developers are on Windows.”

“I mean, I always say Google makes more money on Windows than all of Microsoft. I mean, literally.”

“At the end of the day, the user will be in control on an open platform like Windows. And I'm sure Apple and, you know, Google will have a lot more control, so they won't allow it.”

“If you look at every other platform that's ever existed, that's been an important capability of every platform that's ever Succeeded in a meaningful way. You know, Windows can build Windows apps. Macs can build Mac apps. The web does not have a built-in wa…”

“Essentially a faulty update got released. Unfortunately to The entire population of their customers and a huge percentage of them got impacted, and it went into a perpetual blue screen mode on Windows, where basically it crashes the system, you reboot, it cra…”

“The next year, in July, 1994, Microsoft just settles with them, rather than going to trial. They're like, alright, look, we just wanna be done, we're gonna settle with you DOJ, we're gonna be done with the US federal government here, and in that settlement, th…”

“Microsoft appeals Judge Jackson's order, and in early May, 1998, the appellate court rules that Microsoft can continue shipping Windows with IE bundled into it, and also continue to bundle any other features that they want as part of Windows, as long as it ben…”

“In the nineties, the box software that Microsoft would use to sell Windows Their gross margin on a copy of Windows was 29%.”

“But when they're selling through an OEM channel, their gross margin was 75%, because you just ship the bits to the OS once, and then the PC manufacturer takes it from there.”

“If I could take seven billion people in the world and sell them Windows, or I can take seven billion people in the world and have them use my search engine for free and then make the money from the advertisers, I'm gonna make three to five X more money from th…”

“You look at Courier, you look at Kin in mobile, you look at all these things that they would let them get so far, and then they'd be like, ah, you guys don't get it. Windows is the center of everything, and if it doesn't make Windows look great or it competes …”

“Windows and Office have proven to be these ridiculously durable franchises generating more revenue today than ever.”

“Spyglass gets this call from Microsoft and so the Microsoft guys call Spyglass, and they're like, yeah, we want to license Spyglass Mosaic so we can build it into Windows, and the Spyglass guys say, you know, yeah, that sounds great, you know, basically how mu…”

“Until Windows 95, all of the Windows operating systems were DOS based.”

“Starting in 1983, they're like, we gotta Do our own graphical operating system, or at least user interface, and this is the origins of the Windows product, and they actually announced it in November of 1983 before the Mac ends up shipping, which their partner …”

“Apple does do a deal to license a lot of quote unquote their intellectual property, which of course came from Xerox, to Microsoft. Apple, I think, was under the impression that it was just for Windows one point oh, but the actual terms of the agreement are thi…”

“And actually, it was not until Windows 95 that Windows was its own operating system. It was in Windows one, two, three, three dot one, and Windows for Workgroups, it was a graphical operating environment.”

“I mean, even before Windows 95 shipped, they had seventy five million Windows users.”

“I think the Microsoft OEM team for Windows was like 20 people or something. Before the enterprise, in this era that we're talking about, the group of people responsible for go-to-market for Windows was really small.”

“There is something good here worth saving. I don't quite know how to express it, but it has to do with the fact that Apple is the only alternative to windows and that Apple can still inject some new thinking into the equation.”

“If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would never have had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them either.”

“Apple actually doesn't want your phone to work like Windows, and that would be actually pretty bad for users and developers, and B, the EU has kind of come in with the sort of classic middle manager foolishness of saying, there's a trade-off here, and you have…”

“He basically took Microsoft operating system share from 98% to probably two percent today, right? If you now count mobile devices, right? They're just irrelevant. Because he was so focused on extending the windows ecosystem. They missed mobile. They missed sea…”

“Windows was popular at that time. So people ran their, you know, data centers on windows and networks on windows. And this Linux thing was like very strange and people didn't really know what it was.”

“My goal was always to be the platform for TV that, you know, just like phones have Android and PCs have windows and I felt like TVs needed Roku.”

“And we actually had, I'd bring it up and Steve was like, over my dead body. And so I still created a skunkworks program in the back.”

“Bright light exposure through windows or windshields will not suffice. Those unlike corrective lenses on your eyes, glasses and contacts don't focus the light to your eyes. In fact, they're designed to filter The very light that triggers activation of these ne…”

“As you create all of this capability and all this infrastructure and plumbing, at a certain point that kind of gets abstracted away and standardized and so on into Windows and Mac and so on. And then the visible complexity goes down again.”

“They had the Windows Monopoly, but what they did in tying the browser to it and threatening Compaq with revocation of the Windows license if Compact Shift Netscape as the default browser was illegal, and they got convicted for it.”

“My understanding was like Microsoft had to submit feature reviews to lawyers at the DOJ. Who would then approve, you know, updates and upgrades to their code base for things like windows. That's what caused them to miss an entire wave of compute.”

“Like, I genuinely heard somebody say the other day that if YouTube was a separate The company, the first thing it would do would be make a general purpose web search engine and compete with Google. You're out of your fucking mind. That's like saying that if yo…”

“Controlling Windows doesn't give them dominance of the tech industry, and so what happens is, like, and it's the analogy that I use here, you've built your castle, and it's absolutely impregnable, and sometimes people capture your castle like they Tunnel under…”

“Windows was emerging, so we built a package, the first package for Windows and it took the company, you know, really literally in three years all over the world.”

“We're probably going to replace a significant percentage of monitors with VR with something to the two-D world, right, and there's going to be a new Windows that's based in the three-D universe, which has totally different GUI metaphors”