Microsoft Office, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Office comes up
Token pricing
- ▶ 18:19 Benedict Evans They had to get everybody using Office first, and then everyone had to stay on Office. 3 times in the scene
How does OpenAI compete?
- ▶ 8:15 Benedict Evans Are you going to end up with 30 buttons underneath and it'll look like Microsoft Office and you'll need Clippy to tell you which ChatGPT feature you're supposed to use?
Looking for AI strategies
- ▶ 10:23 Benedict Evans And they also have kind of product businesses in, um, um, everything that Google does and in, in, in office and everything else where this enables new features.
Looking for AI use-cases
- ▶ 18:03 Benedict Evans They're all basically unbundling Oracle and Microsoft Office, to put it kind of crudely.
What's your AI strategy?
- ▶ 12:22 Benedict Evans I mean, I was listening to a, um, podcast with Steven Sinofsky from, I mentioned sometimes who I used to work with, who used to run Office, and he's got stories of going, literally going to investment banks with PCs, showing them Excel,…
LLMs, links, and the death of links
- ▶ 18:17 Benedict Evans Well, so, so, um, I mean, I used to work with, um, Steven Sinolsky, who ran Office, and he always had this model of, um, filers versus pilers.
Bundling/Unbundling AI
- ▶ 13:00 Benedict Evans Well, this is also like the unbundling unbundling point, but this is, um, I mean, this is what happens with what happens with Microsoft Office is you end up with 500 buttons 2 times in the scene
Working out AI questions
- ▶ 28:33 Benedict Evans And this is, this is almost like this, by this conversation that we used to have with Steven Sinofsky, who kind of ran Office, which is, how is it that you surface
Metaverse and crypto - beyond the BS
- ▶ 27:37 Benedict Evans So we'll destroy Windows, and we'll destroy Office. 3 times in the scene
No Soup for You! Regulating tech M&A
- ▶ 11:21 Benedict Evans And then they lost, and that happens from starts in like, 1995 to 2000, and then, then they lose the client, but they sell loads more PCs, because you get, want to get online, and then they lose the client to smartphones, and there's now… 3 times in the scene
Figma, unbundling and $20bn of antitrust
- ▶ 4:43 Benedict Evans And Google Docs is kind of the perfect, is kind of a really interesting comparison because Google Docs never unseated office or word for financial analysts or lawyers who actually needed those very, very specific sets of features. 3 times in the scene
Three ways to say no
- ▶ 1:59 Benedict Evans And so he talks about, he's been, the latest kind of current issue is about the Microsoft Office window, um, Ribbon.
Talking about crypto
- ▶ 18:26 Benedict Evans As opposed to the mistake people made in the nineties was like, let's just clone office. 2 times in the scene
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 14:25 Benedict Evans Hundreds of millions of people use Microsoft Office.
- ▶ 30:50 Benedict Evans And it's a great moment where Bill Gates thinks that, you know, Microsoft office file format is a key strategic asset and they need to leverage that on the internet.
The Meta reality
- ▶ 17:24 Benedict Evans And it also reminded me a lot of, um, Microsoft did a concept video of, um, you know, the future of office, when again, it's very sort of, you know, carefully selected ethnic groups landing at airport and gender, mix of genders landing at…
- ▶ 28:01 Benedict Evans I mean, it's back to my point about the Microsoft, Microsoft Office concept video.
Telcos and Tesla
- ▶ 20:02 Benedict Evans Because now there was actually a use case, because before without the internet, the only reason to get a PC was basically run Microsoft Office, or run something very specific like Photoshop.
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 25:46 Benedict Evans And it turned out, after I sort of looked at this and thought this is ridiculous, about a week later I realized that, um, Microsoft Office, there is a separate chart for, there's a chart type for columns side by side, there's a chart type…
Paying attention to Apple again
- ▶ 23:25 Benedict Evans They've got the software it came with, they installed Zoom, and maybe Office, or maybe Photoshop, and that's kind of it.
Why do we care about games?
- ▶ 10:54 Benedict Evans And clearly there's a bunch of, well, it's clearly like with PCs, you started with Office, you started with spreadsheets, and you slowly build up, and eventually it can become everything.
The FTC and Facebook
- ▶ 18:22 Benedict Evans That's like saying that if you'd split office from Windows, then the first thing the office team would have done is make another PC operating system. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:25 Benedict Evans I mean, supposing back in 2000 or 2001, the court had broken apart windows from office.
Slack, Salesforce and the future of work
- ▶ 15:18 Bernadette Kevins Because part of what Microsoft has done is shifted Office from being an on-prem solution, meaning, not literally, it's not running in a data center, it's running on every user's PC, to a subscription product, and they shifted it, sometimes… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:26 Bernadette Kevins I always used to think that Facebook, Facebook is like a consumer version of Microsoft office in that, you know, when you use office, I know I must be able to do that. 2 times in the scene
Is Europe a market?
- ▶ 34:14 Benedict Evans Um, which was the web, you know, before the web, why would you buy a PC while to play games or run Microsoft office or write code?