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Steven Sinofsky

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
313 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

The PC is, you know, like, I hate saying it, and I've truly had a bunch of these over the past month, six months or so, but I spent a lot of energy with our team on getting the memory down to...

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

to two and four gigs at the time, but eight is going to be hard.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Now, Windows is doing a lot of work right now on that, so we'll see where that goes.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

But right now, if you ask me about what PC to buy, I would send you to a 16 gig PC.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

It takes work.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

It takes like techie work.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

to get it down to be 8 gig reasonable.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Like, uninstalling a bunch of stuff, playing around, stuff that you wouldn't, you shouldn't tell anyone to do.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Like, which PC would you recommend?

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Like, a specific laptop?

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Dell XPS 14?

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Yeah, any, I would get a, I would get a Dell XPS 13.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

What do you think about the Surface lineup right now?

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Well, here, okay, look, I'm obviously not objective about the Surface lineup.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Mm-hmm.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

I think that the PC, when we designed Surface, and I wrote like 80 million words on this, which everybody could go see on Hardcore Software.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

I'm not going to replay them here about what we did wrong and right.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

But originally, Surface was envisioned to be this platform discontinuity in PCs.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

It was going to be the move to mobile chips, ARM, and mobile firm factors,

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

like a tablet.