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Wong: Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft will clone OpenClaw in ten months
“My prediction is this within n number of months, less than 10 Entropic, now, now Open Claw become part of OpenAI, so that becomes the OpenAI part of this game. Entropic, Google, Microsoft, Everybody will have their equivalent of open, open call framework.”
Bilkowski: Microsoft Copilot's value fell short of its pricing promise
“Turns out that the capabilities weren't quite there. And so I think that the, you know, the promise of the value was greater than what the realization was.”
Gisenau: Microsoft launched a free app competing with ChitChattr
“We had an incident about a week ago or so where Microsoft have launched a free app, a portion of which competes with an element of our application.”
Startups must pitch reporters two to three weeks before major announcements
“If you're going to make a large announcement, unless you are Microsoft or Apple or Meta or something, you're not going to get same day or next day coverage. You're going to need to reach out to reporters two to three weeks in advance to give them a heads up, t…”
Chalana: Future AI will combine big tech and open-source models
“I think it'll be a combination of both, just like it is today. It's, there's some companies who created these I mean, open AI created this with a lot of investment from Microsoft and all that stuff. But then Pretty soon, right after that, we had Facebook open …”
Paul Allen Warned CertiCom He Was Liquidating Pre-Crash Tech Holdings
“We should have known one of our biggest investors was Paul Allen.
In CertiCom.
He's the co-founder of Microsoft.
And we knew when he pulled his money out
and we knew he was, he told us he's going to pull it out.
He's, and he was going to pull out all the money…”
Reyes: Microsoft's AI and Acquisition Strategy Is a Masterclass in Business
“What Microsoft is doing is one of the most brilliant business movements I've seen in my life, like, they bought GitHub, they bought LinkedIn they invested in OpenAI, and they have been building an empire”
Schmidt: Most HR Tech Companies Lack Resources to Train Custom AI
“And the truth is that most companies who are in the HR tech space don't have the resources that someone like open AI has to train their content. And to train the AI. They just seem to, they don't have a billion dollars from Microsoft.”
Gisenau: ChitChattr faced Teams rejections from conflicting internal Microsoft requirements
“We had, for example, portions of our app get rejected because of requirements that were coming through from the main team's engineering team to the store validation team that would like literally just in conflict with one another.”
Gisenau: Microsoft Partner Center lacks usability and consistency compared to customer software
“The software that Microsoft has that are facing partners as opposed to facing customers is, is, you know, not, not necessarily the same level of usability or consistency or bug freeness or anything like that. So the partner center itself is, is a bit of a chal…”
Gisenau: Microsoft rejected a functional Teams app for lacking business value
“We've got a few apps that we've built. One of them never made it to the actual store itself. We went through the entire process, the verifications, there were a few bugs that were raised. We addressed all of those things, et cetera. And at the end of it, Micro…”
Gisenau: Microsoft Teams review team responsiveness slowed significantly as store hit 800+ apps
“When there are 800 and something apps, each of those potentially submitting new versions, and obviously a ton of other apps going through as well. So they've slowed down quite a bit in terms of the responsiveness, shall we say.”
Gisenau: Teams users mistakenly expect marketplace apps to be free
“One of the things we've found, for example, is that users are quite surprised that there's a pricing involved for the purchase of our apps. We've had a number of customers or a number of feedback items, shall we say, from users who've been quite surprised that…”
Druckman: Bill Gates kept a year of payroll to protect early hires
“In the beginning, Bill Gates hired his friends. That was who worked for him pretty much his friends. And he would think about the prospect of not being able to make payroll to his friends who had given up other careers to come and work there. So he said he mad…”
Gisenau: Microsoft Teams takes zero cut of app revenue
“On the Microsoft side, there's no charging model. There's no fee model at all. On the one hand, that's kind of a little bit of a negative. There's no charging model built in, so there's no model natively in the platform to charge customers. The positive of tha…”
Spohr: Early Microsoft technical writing earnings built seven-figure portfolio
“I was a lucky English major who got to be a technical writer at Microsoft and very early on, like we're talking way back in the Reagan administration, frankly. And that was good for me. It wasn't as good as the developers I know who made piles of money at the …”