Microsoft, every mention
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every year 2020 anyone Benedict Evans 529Bernadette Kevins 29Toni Cowan-Brown 13
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What comes next?
- ▶ 3:26 Benedict Evans And then Microsoft and Intel come along and blow up the tech industry, and they don't do it by doing mainframes, they do it by doing something else.
- ▶ 5:20 Benedict Evans The same thing for Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:21 Benedict Evans Like no one started a company to write for Windows software since the early 2000 probably.
- ▶ 11:17 Benedict Evans And so in the eighties, all those companies went from mainframes to Oracle, or some of them did, you know, they all went to Oracle and Windows and PCs.
- ▶ 21:14 Benedict Evans Um, I think part of the, I mean, to your, your, your sort of Brexit point, I mean, this is sort of what happened to Microsoft 20 years ago, which is they hadn't quite realized that they weren't the pirates anymore. 2 times in the scene
The FTC and Facebook
- ▶ 5:43 Benedict Evans The market for Microsoft Windows was commercial operating systems for Intel based PCs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:48 Benedict Evans Then Microsoft didn't get to say, but we compete with Linux or Mac because they just ruled that out of court. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 18:31 Benedict Evans Why would the YouTube search engine do any better than Bing?
- ▶ 26:25 Benedict Evans I mean, supposing back in 2000 or 2001, the court had broken apart windows from office.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 2:55 Bernadette Kevins One of them is there's like a, an ownership layer that if everything happens in Slack or indeed happens in teams, which is Microsoft's attempt to do the same thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:55 Bernadette Kevins One of them is there's like a, an ownership layer that if everything happens in Slack or indeed happens in teams, which is Microsoft's attempt to do the same thing.
- ▶ 15:14 Bernadette Kevins It also gets you to the Microsoft Teams conversation.
- ▶ 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… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 15:42 Bernadette Kevins So it was, it was Word and Excel and PowerPoint and Outlook.
- ▶ 15:42 Bernadette Kevins So it was, it was Word and Excel and PowerPoint and Outlook.
- ▶ 15:42 Bernadette Kevins So it was, it was Word and Excel and PowerPoint and Outlook.
- ▶ 15:42 Bernadette Kevins So it was, it was Word and Excel and PowerPoint and Outlook.
- ▶ 15:51 Bernadette Kevins And now the relevant part of the bundle is Microsoft Teams, which again, like Slack, is this collaborative substrate, and it has, you know, file sharing, and document creation, and chat, and messaging, and video calls. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:22 Bernadette Kevins As I was saying, if you, if anyone remembers using Microsoft Access, like, you could probably write an email client in Microsoft Access using the scripting tools. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:20 Bernadette Kevins And equally, there's all the different things that unbundle Excel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:22 Bernadette Kevins So Google has become the new Microsoft. 2 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
- ▶ 28:36 Bernadette Kevins Like, you must be able to do that in Excel.
The paradox of Apple
- ▶ 11:17 Benedict Evans I mean, there's a small number of people running Excel and Photoshop, but you know, for four billion people out there who have a smartphone, it's their main computer.
- ▶ 20:16 Benedict Evans It's not why we use Zoom instead of Microsoft Teams.
- ▶ 24:30 Benedict Evans Or do I use PowerPoint? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:31 Benedict Evans Do I use Excel? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:46 Benedict Evans How many people's job is running Final Cut Pro, running InDesign, running Excel, running Bloomberg, doing 300 page document, legal documents in Microsoft Word?
- ▶ 26:08 Benedict Evans And at that, and so if you'd gone to that person and said, maybe you could do your job without a Windows PC, they'd say, out of your mind, because I need to do pivot tables. 3 times in the scene
Is content moderation a dead end?
- ▶ 16:06 Benedict Evans Which is, um, and I wrote something about this, like, 18 months ago, that in the early 2000, end of the nineties, early 2000, Microsoft had an explosion of malware, because they had built this platform that was completely open, and it was… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:35 Benedict Evans And Microsoft has to have this sort of huge push to try and lock down Windows. 3 times in the scene
How do you destroy a tech monopoly?
- ▶ 1:22 Benedict Evans I always joke with my friend who used to be a senior exec at Microsoft that Microsoft secretly wishes they were on these lists. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47 Benedict Evans And so that means that, you know, where in the past Microsoft was exciting, but it was kind of a small business relative to the rest of the global economy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:53 Benedict Evans And that didn't happen because Microsoft broke apart their monopoly on mainframes and made a new mainframe. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:10 Benedict Evans Nobody started a company to write Windows software since, like, 2002. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:28 Benedict Evans And 20 years ago, they tried to do this to Microsoft, and in fact, part of the problem of the Microsoft case was it was actually quite narrowly focused on contracts with OEMs, and the judge sort of expanded it into saying, well, then I'm… 2 times in the scene
What the Apple and Facebook events tell us about their product cycles
- ▶ 6:29 Benedict Evans Microsoft has this duo, which is two screens.
- ▶ 21:38 Benedict Evans And that's where Apple and Microsoft and Intel and everybody else have taken PCs and then phones, and now that's not where VR is.
- ▶ 30:32 Benedict Evans That we have, there's a bunch of people who can do that sort of within limits, but it's not glasses, and it only works in doors, and there's a narrow field of view, and you don't have depth of field, and so Microsoft has something with…
Is Europe a market?
- ▶ 29:17 Benedict Evans B, you probably meant Microsoft, or IBM, or probably, or BP, or Rolls-Royce, you know, you're going to work for an engineering company writing software for them, or you're going to work for, say, Tesco.
- ▶ 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?
- ▶ 43:03 Benedict Evans Will they repeat the replacements for Facebook and Microsoft and Google?