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Steven Sinofsky

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313 total appearances

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

And what you're going to see in the marketplace is just sort of this

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

price comparison, and Intel and Nvidia are just going to drive the prices to each other, and only one of them can really afford the battle.

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

But that doesn't change the value proposition for consumers, which is what they really want is to not have that backward compatibility.

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

They just don't know it.

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

If they got a PC without a fan that you couldn't edit the registry, you couldn't break it, you couldn't just go into the system folder and delete stuff, all of these things that you don't even think about on a Mac anymore and you don't even think about, you can't even think about on a phone, you don't want them on the PC.

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

And so it's tough for me to see Microsoft sort of embracing this idea

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

Because, I mean, I understand, like, if you want to sell the enterprise, you have to run that VB app from 2003.

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

But that's not, you don't need to do that.

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

You could just put it on a server and remote into it.

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

You could put it in a VM on an x86 machine.

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

There's a million ways to do that.

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

You just don't need to run it on the machine that you want to run your agents on.

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

And in the short term, everybody is going to be running terminal anyway.

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

And these agents in today's agents are all headless anyway.

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

That will change too.

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

But right now, that's the big... We hit this fork in the road, and Microsoft has already said the direction that they want to take it, which is they just want NVIDIA chips to do all the things that Windows has always done, which always tests well with customers.

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

Until you say, the customer's like, yeah, but those registry editors and admin scripts and stuff really screwed us up.

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

And like, we know, we know this.

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

So it's tough for me to see.

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

Yeah.