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Tom Warren

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
459 total appearances

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The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

And they've kind of built on top of that build.

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

And it's all, like a lot of the Windows announcements this year were very, very developer-focused.

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

I mean, there pretty much wasn't anything outside of dev stuff, which I think is good because in some years,

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

Over the past decade, they've gone very consumer-heavy at Build.

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

But they've done the Terminal work as well in the past.

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

I think this year it felt like that kind of build.

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

Because I remember when they unveiled Terminal, people were going nuts in the audience.

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

It was genuine.

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

It wasn't like Microsoft PR people screaming in the corner, you know?

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

Yeah, that's the thing.

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

It's almost like an existential crisis, isn't it, for Microsoft?

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

Because if they don't pull this off, they have Office and Windows and all of this enterprise platform stuff like M365, etc.,

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

But that could all just disappear, right?

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

It's not a guaranteed business anymore in this era where a startup can just create something that just takes all that way.

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

But that's what it's all about.

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

They need to capture that audience that they already have on the enterprise.

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

and get them using their own tools before they run off to use someone else's.

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

And there's been obviously friction internally with the OpenAI stuff where they've been competing.

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

They've been on this weird path where they're sort of trying to get the same sort of customers.

The Vergecast
Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

And I think if there's ever a time where they need to make this work, it's right now for sure.