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041. Scaling the Office Infrastructure and Platform

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041. Scaling the Office Infrastructure and Platform

“I don’t know how to read this without getting concerned.” –BillG replying to an Office96 status report April 1995

Steven Sinofsky
Aug 8, 2021
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041. Scaling the Office Infrastructure and Platform

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Perhaps more than any particular feature in what would become Office 97, though there were a lot of features, the biggest innovation was building the organization and culture supporting a shared infrastructure and platform team. Before Office 97, Microsoft decidedly switched to selling Office, yet we continued to build Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and w…

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