Steven Sinofsky
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first heard Feb 2025
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Steven Sinofsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I wake up and there's a reporter hyperventilating on the phone to me saying, I love you, I love you, I love you.
And it turns out that was a virus that got created that then spread over the internet as a worm.
And the next day, the headlines were $12 billion worth of damage to the US economy in one day.
And so I did that.
And we had to have a meeting and go, we're going to pause the development of Outlook right now until we figure this out.
Nobody had imagined you could create a bug that in 12 hours could do $12 billion worth of damage.
But we did it.
Woohoo, yay team.
And so, of course, the more people use a system, the more damage you can do if it goes awry.
But that's like table stakes.
That's like what you literally signed up to do.
The fact that it caught you off guard or that, wow, we're so popular, we can't figure it out so quickly because we're still competing.
That's like too bad, tough luck.
One of the most famous tech journalists, every time there was a bug in our software,
And I would do what he would just make fun of me because I would say, well, it's not so straightforward or it's hard or it's complicated.
He would just look at me and just say, Sanofsky, that's why you're paid the big bucks.
You know, it's not an option.
It's not a thing that you get to appeal to some higher authority, whether it's the United States Congress or, you know, you know, embedded testers or some other third party evaluators or just like laws of nature.
That's not any option.
Like this is a tool that human beings are building that other humans are using.
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