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Brad led Windows for a while, notably the development of the Windows 95 product and that team. Thomas Reardon, who was one of the original team members on Internet Explorer, and actually went on years later to start Control Labs, which sold to Meta and is a part of Meta's effort now to do the neural interface. You can sort of twitch your hands and I don't know.
We haven't actually seen a product yet, so we'll have to see what that looks like. But that was Thomas Reardon in his next act. Steven Sanofsky, who led Windows in Windows 7 and 8 and led Office before that. And David, you read quite a bit of Steven's words to prepare for this.
We haven't actually seen a product yet, so we'll have to see what that looks like. But that was Thomas Reardon in his next act. Steven Sanofsky, who led Windows in Windows 7 and 8 and led Office before that. And David, you read quite a bit of Steven's words to prepare for this.
Yep. Julie Larson-Green was also great. She worked closely with Stephen in Office and also on Windows. My old coworker, Anand Rajaswaran, who worked with me on Office for iPad, helped refresh my memory on what the blow-by-blow was like in those days where we almost shipped the product, then didn't, then got a new CEO, then did.
Yep. Julie Larson-Green was also great. She worked closely with Stephen in Office and also on Windows. My old coworker, Anand Rajaswaran, who worked with me on Office for iPad, helped refresh my memory on what the blow-by-blow was like in those days where we almost shipped the product, then didn't, then got a new CEO, then did.
Huge thank you to Fritz Landman, who worked in some strategy and corp dev roles at Microsoft. Just an awesome guy. Actually, now he is the CEO of the combined company ClassPass and MindBody. And talk about a person with multiple lives and careers. He was great. Someone that he worked closely with at Microsoft, Charlie Songhurst. Charlie's one of the smartest people I've ever met.
Huge thank you to Fritz Landman, who worked in some strategy and corp dev roles at Microsoft. Just an awesome guy. Actually, now he is the CEO of the combined company ClassPass and MindBody. And talk about a person with multiple lives and careers. He was great. Someone that he worked closely with at Microsoft, Charlie Songhurst. Charlie's one of the smartest people I've ever met.
I mean, that could go for a lot of people on this list,
I mean, that could go for a lot of people on this list,
Absolutely brilliant, mind-expanding person. John Rubenstein, who led engineering at Apple and actually went on to lead Palm. It was fun talking with him about what was it like from the Apple side, from the competitive perspective, competing against Microsoft all these years. Huge thank you to Ray Ozzie, who David and I both spoke with.
Absolutely brilliant, mind-expanding person. John Rubenstein, who led engineering at Apple and actually went on to lead Palm. It was fun talking with him about what was it like from the Apple side, from the competitive perspective, competing against Microsoft all these years. Huge thank you to Ray Ozzie, who David and I both spoke with.
Yeah. More on my side to Rob Glazer, who worked at Microsoft in the 90s and founded and ran Real Networks. To Joe Belfiore, who played a large role in Windows and Windows Phone. And actually, he demoed Windows XP in the way back when, 2001, in the launch announcement to Regis Fieldman. That's like how the second half of the keynote works, is Joe is demoing features to Regis.
Yeah. More on my side to Rob Glazer, who worked at Microsoft in the 90s and founded and ran Real Networks. To Joe Belfiore, who played a large role in Windows and Windows Phone. And actually, he demoed Windows XP in the way back when, 2001, in the launch announcement to Regis Fieldman. That's like how the second half of the keynote works, is Joe is demoing features to Regis.
Yes. So Joe's got this beautiful, long history at Microsoft and was just really great. To Vivek Varma, who was at Microsoft, deeply involved in sort of the comms and legal stuff during the antitrust era. Of course, to Steve Ballmer, being very generous with his time and helpful in helping us sharpen some of our thinking today.
Yes. So Joe's got this beautiful, long history at Microsoft and was just really great. To Vivek Varma, who was at Microsoft, deeply involved in sort of the comms and legal stuff during the antitrust era. Of course, to Steve Ballmer, being very generous with his time and helpful in helping us sharpen some of our thinking today.
That's right. Our good friend who runs the Science of Hitting, it's a great substack that does investment analysis and just was very generous sharing a large spreadsheet of historical data from Microsoft. It's very easy to parse and look things up live while we're doing the episode. And finally, last one from me to Todd Bishop at GeekWire.