Microsoft PowerPoint, every mention
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every year anyone Benedict Evans 16Toni Cowan-Brown 2Bernadette Kevins 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft PowerPoint comes up
What jobs are AI jobs?
- ▶ 28:51 Toni Cowan-Brown And to your point, everyone is providing the same software or the same type of PowerPoint decks.
AI and SaaS
- ▶ 30:50 Benedict Evans Are you buying the PowerPoint deck?
A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1
- ▶ 10:53 Benedict Evans One of them is what you get when you open these apps, is the same thing that you get if you do file new in Excel or PowerPoint, which is a bunch of suggestions.
Looking for AI use-cases
- ▶ 17:48 Benedict Evans So yes, you do have four or 500 different software applications, and the reason I mention this is that all of those are basically doing stuff you could do with X, some Excel, email, Salesforce, or Oracle, or PowerPoint.
What's your AI strategy?
- ▶ 16:40 Toni Cowan-Brown Thinking and working in consultancies where you would be like, oh, I have to wait for the design team to be open or have a free slot so that they can help me design a PowerPoint or a presentation for a client and bring my idea to life.
Bundling/Unbundling AI
- ▶ 15:40 Benedict Evans So the way I always used to describe this years ago was that, you know, every big company, there's, there's people who download every week, you download a CSV out of SAP, and you put it in Excel, and you analyze it and sort it, and you… 3 times in the scene
GPT-4 is here, now what?
- ▶ 28:46 Benedict Evans Um, and so that's very obviously what's happening with Microsoft and Google, including this in PowerPoint and office and of course in search and everything else.
Remember AI?
- ▶ 8:26 Benedict Evans And then you start seeing companies that are like, we're three PhDs, here's our CV made into PowerPoint slides, give us ten million dollars, and we'll go and register a domain name and get more by Google in six months.
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 25:33 Benedict Evans So I moved from PowerPoint to Keynote, and for a while I thought that you couldn't set a chart to go, to be stacked to a hundred percent.
Telling stories with charts
- ▶ 20:51 Benedict Evans It's a PowerPoint, but it's on somebody's desk, or it's a PDF that they're reading, and so it's a way, it's a publishing format, it's not a presentation at all, it's a document. 2 times in the scene
The history of doom-scrolling
- ▶ 7:30 Benedict Evans Yeah, so it's Squarespace, WordPress, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Photoshop.
Slack, Salesforce and the future of work
- ▶ 15:42 Bernadette Kevins So it was, it was Word and Excel and PowerPoint and Outlook.
The paradox of Apple
- ▶ 24:30 Benedict Evans Or do I use PowerPoint? 4 times in the scene