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“The reality is, you don’t really know how many Microsoft products you use until you think about it,” Gluck says. “That is basically a signpost for stuff that really works. You don’t have to think about it. You don’t talk a lot about your gas and electric at home, until it doesn’t work. But, your gas and electric powers everything. It’s something you always use. Even on my phone, I mostly check email, contacts and look at files on Word and PowerPoint. It’s all from Office 365 and it all works everywhere.”

In a rundown of what he uses day to day, Gluck writes and looks over documents on Microsoft Word. When he browses the Internet, he uses Internet Explorer. When Gluck needed to approve costumes for “Annie,” he used Skype. When he needed to check out locations to film in New York, he used the Surface Globe app (powered by Bing Maps).

“I love it, it’s the coolest thing. We could do a lot of scouting from my office, as opposed to having to go there physically, because we were able to fly through the spaces,” Gluck says.

Gluck – who has always used PCs to work on his movies, which include “Easy A” and “Friends with Benefits” – keeps his Surface Pro 3 with him all the time as it’s “basically become my laptop now.”