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For many years, Microsoft has led the market with its program PowerPoint. Zongker and Salesin (2003) estimated a market share of 95% in 2003, and a Forrester study (Montalbano, 2009) widely confirmed this number, stating that only 8% of enterprise customers use alternative products. ... we confirm the prior estimates ... .Embedded citations: (1) Zongker, Douglas E.; Salesin, David H. (2003). "On Creating Animated Presentations" (PDF). SCA '03 Symposium on Computer Animation 2003. Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation, San Diego, CA, July 26–27, 2003. Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland: Eurographics Association. pp. 298–308. ISBN 978-1-58113-659-3. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 22, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2017. (2) Montalbano, Elizabeth (June 4, 2009). "Forrester: Microsoft Office in No Danger From Competitors". PC World. ISSN 0737-8939. Archived from the original on August 16, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
Start the slide show with your Apple Watch and easily navigate to the next and previous slides.
I'll just say that if you're in the business of putting on briefings and otherwise making presentations, you might want to seriously contemplate getting a Mac II just so you can use this program; it's that good. Highly recommended.
Graphics/DOS ... 1 Harvard Graphics (Software Publishing), 2 Freelance + (Lotus) ... .Alt URL
... Freelance Plus, the first new release of Freelance since Lotus acquired the graphics package from Graphics Communications Inc. in June.Alt URL
Harvard Graphics gained the top spot this year, and now outsells Freelance Plus by a three-to-two margin.Alt URL
18 ... software packages reviewed ... .Alt URL
[Gerstner:] By that afternoon an email about my hitting the Off button on the overhead projector was crisscrossing the world. Talk about consternation! It was as if the President of the United States had banned the use of English at White House meetings.
[Jobs:] 'People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.'
The $395 program will be shipped to dealers on April 20, Forethought said.
PowerPoint's two creators ... Robert Gaskins was the visionary entrepreneur ... with major programming done by Dennis Austin, an old chum ... .
[Strategic Investment Group head Dan] Eilers stressed ... 'we are going to make minority investments in companies that add value to Apple computers and thereby increase the sales of Apple computers over time.'
I'll just say that if you're in the business of putting on briefings and otherwise making presentations, you might want to seriously contemplate getting a Mac II just so you can use this program; it's that good. Highly recommended.
A special promotion announced last week by Microsoft Corp. enables Macintosh customers to buy four of the company's business applications at a 35 percent discount. The special edition, called The Microsoft Office, includes Word 4.0, Excel 2.2, PowerPoint 2.01, and Mail 1.37. The package sells for $849; if purchased separately, the programs would cost $1,310, the company said. The promotion is available until the end of the year.
Microsoft last week announced the release of The Microsoft Office for Windows, which bundles three of the company's popular Windows applications—Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—for significantly less than they would cost separately. The product brings to the Windows environment basically the equivalent of The Microsoft Office for Macintosh, which was announced a year ago.
Data from the Software Publishers Association and other sources show that in 1992, while overall sales of application products grew only 12 percent, sales of Windows-based applications grew by nearly 100 percent. At least a dozen companies besides Microsoft have sold more than 1 million units of Windows applications.
[McNealy:] ' ... we've had three unbelievable record-breaking fiscal quarters since we banned PowerPoint. Now, I would argue that every company in the world, if they would just ban PowerPoint, would see their earnings skyrocket. Employees would stand around going, "What do I do? Guess I've got to go to work."'Additional archives: September 23, 2017.
All Formats (66,169) ... Print book (23,696), eBook (3,475), Thesis/dissertation (1,078) ... Article (18,085) ... Video (3,537) ...
... the forthcoming version of PowerPoint 4.0, which is part of Office 4.2. ... Microsoft said it is packaging separate ... versions for 68000-based Macintoshes and for newer PowerPC-based Power Macintoshes, all in one shrink-wrapped box.
... less than a month after the software officially launched.
PowerPoint 16.9.0 (18011602).
In the 1990s, the outward signs of form over substance are field grade officers grinding out slick PowerPoint briefing charts ... .
... the IBM PC platform ... an 84% share in 1990. The Macintosh stabilized at about 6% market share ... .
[Trans.] The corporate world can be an art object.
From 1982 ... Mr. Vashee served in various senior marketing, product management and executive positions at Microsoft. ... and as the General Manager for PowerPoint from 1992 to 1997 ... played a key role in the integration of PowerPoint into the Microsoft Office suite.
The $395 program will be shipped to dealers on April 20, Forethought said.
'We're quite happy to have people know our plan is to leverage our Mac experience with Microsoft Windows,' says Robert Gaskins, vice president of development.
[Strategic Investment Group head Dan] Eilers stressed ... 'we are going to make minority investments in companies that add value to Apple computers and thereby increase the sales of Apple computers over time.'
The Forethought group will become Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit, forming a permanent Microsoft development and marketing facility in Sunnyvale, California. With a site in California, Microsoft hopes to recruit programmers who might not want to relocate to Washington, [Microsoft president Jon] Shirley said.
A special promotion announced last week by Microsoft Corp. enables Macintosh customers to buy four of the company's business applications at a 35 percent discount. The special edition, called The Microsoft Office, includes Word 4.0, Excel 2.2, PowerPoint 2.01, and Mail 1.37. The package sells for $849; if purchased separately, the programs would cost $1,310, the company said. The promotion is available until the end of the year.
Microsoft last week announced the release of The Microsoft Office for Windows, which bundles three of the company's popular Windows applications—Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—for significantly less than they would cost separately. The product brings to the Windows environment basically the equivalent of The Microsoft Office for Macintosh, which was announced a year ago.
Graphics/DOS ... 1 Harvard Graphics (Software Publishing), 2 Freelance + (Lotus) ... .Alt URL
... graphics presentation program, Harvard Presentation Graphics, introduced last week. ... will be available in March ... .
... Freelance Plus, the first new release of Freelance since Lotus acquired the graphics package from Graphics Communications Inc. in June.Alt URL
Harvard Graphics gained the top spot this year, and now outsells Freelance Plus by a three-to-two margin.Alt URL
18 ... software packages reviewed ... .Alt URL
[Microsoft president Jon] Shirley ... said that Microsoft has no firm plans currently to develop an MS-DOS version of PowerPoint.
Data from the Software Publishers Association and other sources show that in 1992, while overall sales of application products grew only 12 percent, sales of Windows-based applications grew by nearly 100 percent. At least a dozen companies besides Microsoft have sold more than 1 million units of Windows applications.
PowerPoint got off to a very slow start in infiltrating the military forces of the world ... .
Version 3.0 now includes a PowerPoint Viewer that runs on any Windows 3.1 machine and can be distributed freely with your presentation files. ... A major advance ... is the use of embedded TrueType fonts ... ensuring that the appearance of your presentation is completely repeatable on any machine equipped with the viewer.
... the forthcoming version of PowerPoint 4.0, which is part of Office 4.2. ... Microsoft said it is packaging separate ... versions for 68000-based Macintoshes and for newer PowerPC-based Power Macintoshes, all in one shrink-wrapped box.
... less than a month after the software officially launched.
PowerPoint Mobile—a new addition to the suite—doubles as a powerful sleep-aid.
... many designers ... use PowerPoint for blocking out screens without ever discovering the interactive features for creating hyperlinks, buttons, and dynamic mouseover effects. Yes, PowerPoint can do all that.
Microsoft PowerPoint, virtual presentation software developed by Robert Gaskins, Tom Rudkin and Dennis Austin for the American computer software company Forethought, Inc. The program, initially named Presenter, was released for the Apple Macintosh in 1987.
... in 1987 ... [i]n July of that year, the Microsoft Corporation, in its first significant software acquisition, purchased the rights to PowerPoint for $14 million.
PowerPoint was developed for business use but has wide applications elsewhere such as for schools and community organizations
According to LifeWay, 'Statistics show that around 90 percent of churches that show multimedia during worship use Microsoft PowerPoint.'
... Bill Gates introduces Microsoft Office 2003 in New York Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2003.
In October ...I joined Forethought ... .
The complete set of PowerPoint slides that Iran used during a meeting with world powers are now public.
Microsoft confirmed to us that there is no Office for Mac 2013 release planned.
Library staff have participated in a technical committee working toward the standardization of the Office Open XML specifications, which ... will make it easier for libraries and archives to preserve a large body of digital material by ensuring that the content is generated in formats for which the specifications are published and will be maintained under the auspices of a standards organization. Specifically, this standard is based on the formats used by the latest version of Microsoft Office and supports all features in the various versions of Microsoft Office since 1997.
PowerPoint was not at all in their original plan. ... [the founders] Pohlman and Campbell's idea was to bring a graphical-software environment like the Xerox Alto's to the hugely popular but graphically challenged [IBM] PC. ... Rather than liquidate the firm, management and investors decided to "restart" Forethought ... .
... Forethought began to develop a software product of its own. This new effort was the brainchild of Robert Gaskins, an accomplished computer scientist who'd been hired to lead Forethought's product development.
Higher education has certainly not been immune from the growing influence of presentation software. ... Five years ago, none of our department's classrooms were equipped to show multimedia slides. At present, all of our classrooms have been upgraded with such technology, and faculty are actively encouraged to incorporate slides into their lectures. Our institution is certainly not alone in this trend. A large number of educators in the United States use PowerPoint in their classrooms ... [with 84 references to earlier studies].
Because every day a huge number of people meet to exchange ideas and make decisions with PowerPoint slides being displayed on the wall, investigating the tool is enormously important ... . Despite the pervasiveness of PowerPoint in our culture there have been few empirical studies and most of the non-empirical work is based on casual essays and informal anecdotal reviews which very often take a polemic and overall negative position on PowerPoint, rather than conducting formal scholarship. This lack of rigorous studies and empirical research is surprising given the enormous complexity and importance of the PowerPoint tool.
The case of the standardisation of two ISO electronic document formats, the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML) ... In this case, the attempt to design a de jure standard in fact produced even greater entrenchment of the existing de facto standard it was designed to replace.
I [Dave Winer] had a meeting with Bill Gates in, I guess it was February of '87 ... We worked out a letter of intent.
Includes ... 1 PowerPoint Viewer disk.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)OpenXML was designed from the start to be capable of faithfully representing the pre-existing corpus of word-processing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets that are encoded in binary formats defined by Microsoft Corporation. ... The original binary formats for these files were based on direct serialization of in-memory data structures ... . Technical Committee 45 (TC45) ... includes representatives from Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, The British Library, Essilor, Intel, Microsoft, NextPage, Novell, Statoil, Toshiba, and the United States Library of Congress.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Eastman Kodak Company has confirmed plans to discontinue the manufacture and sales of slide projection products and accessories in June of 2004.
1.9 million copies of 4 books and 422,000 copies of 4 booklets printed from 1983–2014, and continuing.
... in 1997, without question the market leader was Microsoft Corp.'s PowerPoint, which sold more than 4 million copies and controls 85 percent of the market.Additional archives: August 26, 2017.
... in 1997, without question the market leader was Microsoft Corp.'s PowerPoint, which sold more than 4 million copies and controls 85 percent of the market.Additional archives: August 26, 2017.
Because every day a huge number of people meet to exchange ideas and make decisions with PowerPoint slides being displayed on the wall, investigating the tool is enormously important ... . Despite the pervasiveness of PowerPoint in our culture there have been few empirical studies and most of the non-empirical work is based on casual essays and informal anecdotal reviews which very often take a polemic and overall negative position on PowerPoint, rather than conducting formal scholarship. This lack of rigorous studies and empirical research is surprising given the enormous complexity and importance of the PowerPoint tool.
... a subculture of PowerPoint enthusiasts is teaching the old application new tricks, and may even be turning a dry presentation format into a full-fledged artistic medium.
And no, Steve Jobs did not invent the style. He just happened to use it very effectively.
... supertitles are simple PowerPoint presentations, completely compatible with PCs or Macs.
The standard method for presenting information in the military and political establishments of the US government is through the projection of data in bullet style and/or graphical formats onto an illuminated screen, using some sort of first analogue, or now, digital media. Since the late 1990s, the most common and expected form of presentation is via the most commonly pre-installed software of presentation genre: Microsoft PowerPoint. This style of presentation has become the norm of communication ... .
Because PowerPoint is so modular, it allows me to block out major themes (potential sections or chapters) and quickly see if I can generate ample ideas to support them. ... Working in slides, as opposed to one long document, helps me focus on organizing before I really begin writing. I think of the slides as index cards or sticky notes that can be arranged and rearranged until I'm sure my thoughts are in the right order. As I write, I can easily toggle back and forth from 'Slide View' to 'Slide Sorter' to get a sense of the whole and the parts.
PowerPoint succeeded so quickly because it spread rapidly by viral transmission from user to user ... every time early adopters used our product effectively, they demonstrated its value to other potential customers. PowerPoint made it especially easy for colleagues within the same company to share materials and incorporate one another's slides into their presentations with automatic formatting. This created networks of cooperation that benefited everyone.
PowerPoint was not at all in their original plan. ... [the founders] Pohlman and Campbell's idea was to bring a graphical-software environment like the Xerox Alto's to the hugely popular but graphically challenged [IBM] PC. ... Rather than liquidate the firm, management and investors decided to "restart" Forethought ... .
... Forethought began to develop a software product of its own. This new effort was the brainchild of Robert Gaskins, an accomplished computer scientist who'd been hired to lead Forethought's product development.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Note that version 7.0 of a product is the same as a '95' designation, for example, Microsoft Excel 95 is the same as Microsoft Excel version 7.0.
Note that version 7.0 of a product is the same as a '95' designation ... .
The standards documents that specify this format run to over six thousand pages.
Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) today announced that Office v. X would be available to the public on November 19. ... Office v. X runs natively on OS X – it will not run under OS 9.
Office v. X requires OS X 10.1 ['Puma']or later to run ... PowerPoint X ... benefit[s] from OS X technologies ... .
[McNealy:] ' ... we've had three unbelievable record-breaking fiscal quarters since we banned PowerPoint. Now, I would argue that every company in the world, if they would just ban PowerPoint, would see their earnings skyrocket. Employees would stand around going, "What do I do? Guess I've got to go to work."'Additional archives: September 23, 2017.
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 ... PowerPoint 2007 (Home and Student version) ... no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options, or online technical content updates ... 10/10/2017
Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2011 ... no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options or online technical content updates ... October 10, 2017
MBD has grown to include ... the Microsoft Office system ... .
Jeff Raikes talks ... about having an idea in 1987 for a presentation product before discovering Forethought, which had a product called PowerPoint.A transcript of the relevant section is also available.
Come join the PowerPoint team ... in the heart of the Silicon Valley in Mountain View, CA. The PowerPoint team has the responsibility for the design, implementation, and testing ... .
This module maps document extensions to Content Mime Type.
"Communication is part of everyone's job, but millennials do it differently," said MIT Sloan lecturer Miro Kazakoff, who co-authored the study with MIT Sloan senior lecturer Kara Blackburn.
... 2003 ... a brand new PowerPoint Viewer. The previous viewer had been written for the PowerPoint 97 release ... can be run without any installation or setup, which means it can be run directly off your USB keychain or even off write-protected media like a CD orDVD.
Our goal is to show users that PowerPoint is not simply a presentation tool, but is also capable on leveraging into other areas such as creating games, artworks and animations.
At many points during its investigation, the Board was surprised to receive similar presentation slides from NASA officials in place of technical reports. The Board views the endemic use of PowerPoint briefing slides instead of technical papers as an illustration of the problematic methods of technical communication at NASA.
... the acquisition of Forethought is the first significant one for Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash. Forethought would remain in Sunnyvale, giving Microsoft a Silicon Valley presence.
I wrote and presented a proposal to Bill Gates for a new piece of software for the personal computer, specifically to help people create presentations ... .
PowerPoint—the must-have presentation software of the corporate world—has infiltrated the schoolhouse. In the coming weeks, students from 12th grade to, yes, kindergarten will finish science projects and polish end-of-the-year presentations on computerized slide shows ... . Software designed for business people has found an audience among the spiral notebook set.
These days scientists ... cannot lecture without PowerPoint.
With his newest project, David Byrne has tried not only to see it [PowerPoint] anew, but also to use it in the least likely of all applications: a medium for creative expression.
This feature was known as the 'presentation broadcast service' in previous versions of PowerPoint.
If you do not have PowerPoint installed on your computer, you can still open and view PowerPoint presentations by using PowerPoint Viewer, PowerPoint Mobile, or PowerPoint Online.
PowerPoint 16.9.0 (18011602).
... PowerPoint 2007 does not support saving to PowerPoint 95 and earlier file formats.
Starting with the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Office uses the XML-based file formats, such as .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx. These formats and file name extensions apply to ... Microsoft PowerPoint.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Office 2016 for Mac is now available in 139 countries and 16 languages.
Today is the worldwide release of Office 2016 for Windows.
For many years, Microsoft has led the market with its program PowerPoint. Zongker and Salesin (2003) estimated a market share of 95% in 2003, and a Forrester study (Montalbano, 2009) widely confirmed this number, stating that only 8% of enterprise customers use alternative products. ... we confirm the prior estimates ... .Embedded citations: (1) Zongker, Douglas E.; Salesin, David H. (2003). "On Creating Animated Presentations" (PDF). SCA '03 Symposium on Computer Animation 2003. Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation, San Diego, CA, July 26–27, 2003. Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland: Eurographics Association. pp. 298–308. ISBN 978-1-58113-659-3. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 22, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2017. (2) Montalbano, Elizabeth (June 4, 2009). "Forrester: Microsoft Office in No Danger From Competitors". PC World. ISSN 0737-8939. Archived from the original on August 16, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
... it is conventional wisdom to put no more than six lines of text on a PowerPoint slide, six words per line. But that convention is no longer wise in the light of research that shows that even that amount of text on a slide can be a recipe for information overload.
The case of the standardisation of two ISO electronic document formats, the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML) ... In this case, the attempt to design a de jure standard in fact produced even greater entrenchment of the existing de facto standard it was designed to replace.
We completed PowerPoint so as to ship it on schedule on April 20. By early May, we had shipped about $1,000,000 worth of PowerPoint and exhausted the first printing of 10,000 copies.
We have learned a tremendous number of technical insights through working with the Genigraphics engineering group ... .
It took ten to fifteen years for PowerPoint to become an everyday topic of popular discourse.
At many points during its investigation, the Board was surprised to receive similar presentation slides from NASA officials in place of technical reports. The Board views the endemic use of PowerPoint briefing slides instead of technical papers as an illustration of the problematic methods of technical communication at NASA.
PowerPoint was not at all in their original plan. ... [the founders] Pohlman and Campbell's idea was to bring a graphical-software environment like the Xerox Alto's to the hugely popular but graphically challenged [IBM] PC. ... Rather than liquidate the firm, management and investors decided to "restart" Forethought ... .
... Forethought began to develop a software product of its own. This new effort was the brainchild of Robert Gaskins, an accomplished computer scientist who'd been hired to lead Forethought's product development.
Higher education has certainly not been immune from the growing influence of presentation software. ... Five years ago, none of our department's classrooms were equipped to show multimedia slides. At present, all of our classrooms have been upgraded with such technology, and faculty are actively encouraged to incorporate slides into their lectures. Our institution is certainly not alone in this trend. A large number of educators in the United States use PowerPoint in their classrooms ... [with 84 references to earlier studies].
Windows 1.0 shipped on November 20th, 1985
... with new research showing that it remains as popular with young tech-savvy users as it is with the Baby Boomers. An online poll by YouGov showed that 81 per cent of UK Snapchat users agreed that PowerPoint was a great tool for making presentations. ... long -form prose has become increasingly unpopular with modern users. PowerPoint, with its capacity to be highly visual, bridges the wordy world of yesterday with the visual future of tomorrow.
For many years, Microsoft has led the market with its program PowerPoint. Zongker and Salesin (2003) estimated a market share of 95% in 2003, and a Forrester study (Montalbano, 2009) widely confirmed this number, stating that only 8% of enterprise customers use alternative products.
For many years, Microsoft has led the market with its program PowerPoint. Zongker and Salesin (2003) estimated a market share of 95% in 2003, and a Forrester study (Montalbano, 2009) widely confirmed this number, stating that only 8% of enterprise customers use alternative products. ... we confirm the prior estimates ... .Embedded citations: (1) Zongker, Douglas E.; Salesin, David H. (2003). "On Creating Animated Presentations" (PDF). SCA '03 Symposium on Computer Animation 2003. Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation, San Diego, CA, July 26–27, 2003. Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland: Eurographics Association. pp. 298–308. ISBN 978-1-58113-659-3. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 22, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2017. (2) Montalbano, Elizabeth (June 4, 2009). "Forrester: Microsoft Office in No Danger From Competitors". PC World. ISSN 0737-8939. Archived from the original on August 16, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
Microsoft noted that it has added 'Mobile' to the app names on PCs and big tablets to help distinguish them from the desktop-based Office application suite ... . On phones and small tablets—i.e. on Windows 10 Mobile—these apps will simply retain their normal names (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), with no Mobile added.
Dr. Mayer is concerned with how to present information in ways that help people understand, including how to use words and pictures to explain scientific and mathematical concepts.
PowerPoint ... can do all the basics [using PowerPoint 2000].
For many years, Microsoft has led the market with its program PowerPoint. Zongker and Salesin (2003) estimated a market share of 95% in 2003, and a Forrester study (Montalbano, 2009) widely confirmed this number, stating that only 8% of enterprise customers use alternative products. ... we confirm the prior estimates ... .Embedded citations: (1) Zongker, Douglas E.; Salesin, David H. (2003). "On Creating Animated Presentations" (PDF). SCA '03 Symposium on Computer Animation 2003. Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation, San Diego, CA, July 26–27, 2003. Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland: Eurographics Association. pp. 298–308. ISBN 978-1-58113-659-3. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 22, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2017. (2) Montalbano, Elizabeth (June 4, 2009). "Forrester: Microsoft Office in No Danger From Competitors". PC World. ISSN 0737-8939. Archived from the original on August 16, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
Microsoft PowerPoint, virtual presentation software developed by Robert Gaskins, Tom Rudkin and Dennis Austin for the American computer software company Forethought, Inc. The program, initially named Presenter, was released for the Apple Macintosh in 1987.
... in 1987 ... [i]n July of that year, the Microsoft Corporation, in its first significant software acquisition, purchased the rights to PowerPoint for $14 million.
... the acquisition of Forethought is the first significant one for Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash. Forethought would remain in Sunnyvale, giving Microsoft a Silicon Valley presence.
For many years, Microsoft has led the market with its program PowerPoint. Zongker and Salesin (2003) estimated a market share of 95% in 2003, and a Forrester study (Montalbano, 2009) widely confirmed this number, stating that only 8% of enterprise customers use alternative products.
PowerPoint was developed for business use but has wide applications elsewhere such as for schools and community organizations
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)PowerPoint was not at all in their original plan. ... [the founders] Pohlman and Campbell's idea was to bring a graphical-software environment like the Xerox Alto's to the hugely popular but graphically challenged [IBM] PC. ... Rather than liquidate the firm, management and investors decided to "restart" Forethought ... .
... Forethought began to develop a software product of its own. This new effort was the brainchild of Robert Gaskins, an accomplished computer scientist who'd been hired to lead Forethought's product development.
In October ...I joined Forethought ... .
'We're quite happy to have people know our plan is to leverage our Mac experience with Microsoft Windows,' says Robert Gaskins, vice president of development.
Windows 1.0 shipped on November 20th, 1985
We completed PowerPoint so as to ship it on schedule on April 20. By early May, we had shipped about $1,000,000 worth of PowerPoint and exhausted the first printing of 10,000 copies.
Jeff Raikes talks ... about having an idea in 1987 for a presentation product before discovering Forethought, which had a product called PowerPoint.A transcript of the relevant section is also available.
I wrote and presented a proposal to Bill Gates for a new piece of software for the personal computer, specifically to help people create presentations ... .
We have learned a tremendous number of technical insights through working with the Genigraphics engineering group ... .
From 1982 ... Mr. Vashee served in various senior marketing, product management and executive positions at Microsoft. ... and as the General Manager for PowerPoint from 1992 to 1997 ... played a key role in the integration of PowerPoint into the Microsoft Office suite.
Note that version 7.0 of a product is the same as a '95' designation, for example, Microsoft Excel 95 is the same as Microsoft Excel version 7.0.
Come join the PowerPoint team ... in the heart of the Silicon Valley in Mountain View, CA. The PowerPoint team has the responsibility for the design, implementation, and testing ... .
MBD has grown to include ... the Microsoft Office system ... .
... the IBM PC platform ... an 84% share in 1990. The Macintosh stabilized at about 6% market share ... .
... in 1997, without question the market leader was Microsoft Corp.'s PowerPoint, which sold more than 4 million copies and controls 85 percent of the market.Additional archives: August 26, 2017.
For many years, Microsoft has led the market with its program PowerPoint. Zongker and Salesin (2003) estimated a market share of 95% in 2003, and a Forrester study (Montalbano, 2009) widely confirmed this number, stating that only 8% of enterprise customers use alternative products. ... we confirm the prior estimates ... .Embedded citations: (1) Zongker, Douglas E.; Salesin, David H. (2003). "On Creating Animated Presentations" (PDF). SCA '03 Symposium on Computer Animation 2003. Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation, San Diego, CA, July 26–27, 2003. Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland: Eurographics Association. pp. 298–308. ISBN 978-1-58113-659-3. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 22, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2017. (2) Montalbano, Elizabeth (June 4, 2009). "Forrester: Microsoft Office in No Danger From Competitors". PC World. ISSN 0737-8939. Archived from the original on August 16, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
Eastman Kodak Company has confirmed plans to discontinue the manufacture and sales of slide projection products and accessories in June of 2004.
Start the slide show with your Apple Watch and easily navigate to the next and previous slides.
This feature was known as the 'presentation broadcast service' in previous versions of PowerPoint.
... in 1997, without question the market leader was Microsoft Corp.'s PowerPoint, which sold more than 4 million copies and controls 85 percent of the market.Additional archives: August 26, 2017.
PowerPoint succeeded so quickly because it spread rapidly by viral transmission from user to user ... every time early adopters used our product effectively, they demonstrated its value to other potential customers. PowerPoint made it especially easy for colleagues within the same company to share materials and incorporate one another's slides into their presentations with automatic formatting. This created networks of cooperation that benefited everyone.
PowerPoint—the must-have presentation software of the corporate world—has infiltrated the schoolhouse. In the coming weeks, students from 12th grade to, yes, kindergarten will finish science projects and polish end-of-the-year presentations on computerized slide shows ... . Software designed for business people has found an audience among the spiral notebook set.
These days scientists ... cannot lecture without PowerPoint.
PowerPoint ... can do all the basics [using PowerPoint 2000].
According to LifeWay, 'Statistics show that around 90 percent of churches that show multimedia during worship use Microsoft PowerPoint.'
The use of sophisticated visuals in the courtroom has boomed in recent years, thanks to research on the power of show-and-tell. ... In one civil case in Los Angeles County, a plaintiff spent $60,000 on a PowerPoint slide show.
... supertitles are simple PowerPoint presentations, completely compatible with PCs or Macs.
... They're mounted in the helmet so that when you turn and look, there's this little screen that shows the checklist. Now in this case, I've written the checklists and put them in PowerPoint, so we just launch a PowerPoint slide show. ... It's a real treat to use.
The standard method for presenting information in the military and political establishments of the US government is through the projection of data in bullet style and/or graphical formats onto an illuminated screen, using some sort of first analogue, or now, digital media. Since the late 1990s, the most common and expected form of presentation is via the most commonly pre-installed software of presentation genre: Microsoft PowerPoint. This style of presentation has become the norm of communication ... .
The complete set of PowerPoint slides that Iran used during a meeting with world powers are now public.
... many designers ... use PowerPoint for blocking out screens without ever discovering the interactive features for creating hyperlinks, buttons, and dynamic mouseover effects. Yes, PowerPoint can do all that.
... a subculture of PowerPoint enthusiasts is teaching the old application new tricks, and may even be turning a dry presentation format into a full-fledged artistic medium.
With his newest project, David Byrne has tried not only to see it [PowerPoint] anew, but also to use it in the least likely of all applications: a medium for creative expression.
At many points during its investigation, the Board was surprised to receive similar presentation slides from NASA officials in place of technical reports. The Board views the endemic use of PowerPoint briefing slides instead of technical papers as an illustration of the problematic methods of technical communication at NASA.
Because PowerPoint is so modular, it allows me to block out major themes (potential sections or chapters) and quickly see if I can generate ample ideas to support them. ... Working in slides, as opposed to one long document, helps me focus on organizing before I really begin writing. I think of the slides as index cards or sticky notes that can be arranged and rearranged until I'm sure my thoughts are in the right order. As I write, I can easily toggle back and forth from 'Slide View' to 'Slide Sorter' to get a sense of the whole and the parts.
It took ten to fifteen years for PowerPoint to become an everyday topic of popular discourse.
1.9 million copies of 4 books and 422,000 copies of 4 booklets printed from 1983–2014, and continuing.
Dr. Mayer is concerned with how to present information in ways that help people understand, including how to use words and pictures to explain scientific and mathematical concepts.
And no, Steve Jobs did not invent the style. He just happened to use it very effectively.
"Communication is part of everyone's job, but millennials do it differently," said MIT Sloan lecturer Miro Kazakoff, who co-authored the study with MIT Sloan senior lecturer Kara Blackburn.
PowerPoint got off to a very slow start in infiltrating the military forces of the world ... .
In the 1990s, the outward signs of form over substance are field grade officers grinding out slick PowerPoint briefing charts ... .
[Trans.] The corporate world can be an art object.
Our goal is to show users that PowerPoint is not simply a presentation tool, but is also capable on leveraging into other areas such as creating games, artworks and animations.
If you do not have PowerPoint installed on your computer, you can still open and view PowerPoint presentations by using PowerPoint Viewer, PowerPoint Mobile, or PowerPoint Online.
Includes ... 1 PowerPoint Viewer disk.
... 2003 ... a brand new PowerPoint Viewer. The previous viewer had been written for the PowerPoint 97 release ... can be run without any installation or setup, which means it can be run directly off your USB keychain or even off write-protected media like a CD orDVD.
Note that version 7.0 of a product is the same as a '95' designation ... .
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) today announced that Office v. X would be available to the public on November 19. ... Office v. X runs natively on OS X – it will not run under OS 9.
... Bill Gates introduces Microsoft Office 2003 in New York Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2003.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Office 2016 for Mac is now available in 139 countries and 16 languages.
Microsoft confirmed to us that there is no Office for Mac 2013 release planned.
Microsoft noted that it has added 'Mobile' to the app names on PCs and big tablets to help distinguish them from the desktop-based Office application suite ... . On phones and small tablets—i.e. on Windows 10 Mobile—these apps will simply retain their normal names (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), with no Mobile added.
Today is the worldwide release of Office 2016 for Windows.
Microsoft made these Desktop Bridge apps—which company officials previously referred to as the "Office in the Windows Store apps"—available to Windows 10 S users in preview form last Summer.
Office v. X requires OS X 10.1 ['Puma']or later to run ... PowerPoint X ... benefit[s] from OS X technologies ... .
... PowerPoint 2007 does not support saving to PowerPoint 95 and earlier file formats.
Starting with the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Office uses the XML-based file formats, such as .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx. These formats and file name extensions apply to ... Microsoft PowerPoint.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)OpenXML was designed from the start to be capable of faithfully representing the pre-existing corpus of word-processing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets that are encoded in binary formats defined by Microsoft Corporation. ... The original binary formats for these files were based on direct serialization of in-memory data structures ... . Technical Committee 45 (TC45) ... includes representatives from Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, The British Library, Essilor, Intel, Microsoft, NextPage, Novell, Statoil, Toshiba, and the United States Library of Congress.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)The case of the standardisation of two ISO electronic document formats, the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML) ... In this case, the attempt to design a de jure standard in fact produced even greater entrenchment of the existing de facto standard it was designed to replace.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)The standards documents that specify this format run to over six thousand pages.
Library staff have participated in a technical committee working toward the standardization of the Office Open XML specifications, which ... will make it easier for libraries and archives to preserve a large body of digital material by ensuring that the content is generated in formats for which the specifications are published and will be maintained under the auspices of a standards organization. Specifically, this standard is based on the formats used by the latest version of Microsoft Office and supports all features in the various versions of Microsoft Office since 1997.
Jeff Raikes talks ... about having an idea in 1987 for a presentation product before discovering Forethought, which had a product called PowerPoint.A transcript of the relevant section is also available.
I [Dave Winer] had a meeting with Bill Gates in, I guess it was February of '87 ... We worked out a letter of intent.
The Forethought group will become Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit, forming a permanent Microsoft development and marketing facility in Sunnyvale, California. With a site in California, Microsoft hopes to recruit programmers who might not want to relocate to Washington, [Microsoft president Jon] Shirley said.
... graphics presentation program, Harvard Presentation Graphics, introduced last week. ... will be available in March ... .
[Microsoft president Jon] Shirley ... said that Microsoft has no firm plans currently to develop an MS-DOS version of PowerPoint.
... in 1997, without question the market leader was Microsoft Corp.'s PowerPoint, which sold more than 4 million copies and controls 85 percent of the market.Additional archives: August 26, 2017.
For many years, Microsoft has led the market with its program PowerPoint. Zongker and Salesin (2003) estimated a market share of 95% in 2003, and a Forrester study (Montalbano, 2009) widely confirmed this number, stating that only 8% of enterprise customers use alternative products. ... we confirm the prior estimates ... .Embedded citations: (1) Zongker, Douglas E.; Salesin, David H. (2003). "On Creating Animated Presentations" (PDF). SCA '03 Symposium on Computer Animation 2003. Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation, San Diego, CA, July 26–27, 2003. Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland: Eurographics Association. pp. 298–308. ISBN 978-1-58113-659-3. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 22, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2017. (2) Montalbano, Elizabeth (June 4, 2009). "Forrester: Microsoft Office in No Danger From Competitors". PC World. ISSN 0737-8939. Archived from the original on August 16, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
... in 1997, without question the market leader was Microsoft Corp.'s PowerPoint, which sold more than 4 million copies and controls 85 percent of the market.Additional archives: August 26, 2017.
Old-fashioned slide briefings, designed to update generals on troop movements, have been a staple of the military since World War II. But in only a few short years PowerPoint has altered the landscape.
Because every day a huge number of people meet to exchange ideas and make decisions with PowerPoint slides being displayed on the wall, investigating the tool is enormously important ... . Despite the pervasiveness of PowerPoint in our culture there have been few empirical studies and most of the non-empirical work is based on casual essays and informal anecdotal reviews which very often take a polemic and overall negative position on PowerPoint, rather than conducting formal scholarship. This lack of rigorous studies and empirical research is surprising given the enormous complexity and importance of the PowerPoint tool.
... it is conventional wisdom to put no more than six lines of text on a PowerPoint slide, six words per line. But that convention is no longer wise in the light of research that shows that even that amount of text on a slide can be a recipe for information overload.
... with new research showing that it remains as popular with young tech-savvy users as it is with the Baby Boomers. An online poll by YouGov showed that 81 per cent of UK Snapchat users agreed that PowerPoint was a great tool for making presentations. ... long -form prose has become increasingly unpopular with modern users. PowerPoint, with its capacity to be highly visual, bridges the wordy world of yesterday with the visual future of tomorrow.
Version 3.0 now includes a PowerPoint Viewer that runs on any Windows 3.1 machine and can be distributed freely with your presentation files. ... A major advance ... is the use of embedded TrueType fonts ... ensuring that the appearance of your presentation is completely repeatable on any machine equipped with the viewer.
PowerPoint Mobile—a new addition to the suite—doubles as a powerful sleep-aid.
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 ... PowerPoint 2007 (Home and Student version) ... no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options, or online technical content updates ... 10/10/2017
Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2011 ... no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options or online technical content updates ... October 10, 2017
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)The use of sophisticated visuals in the courtroom has boomed in recent years, thanks to research on the power of show-and-tell. ... In one civil case in Los Angeles County, a plaintiff spent $60,000 on a PowerPoint slide show.
The $395 program will be shipped to dealers on April 20, Forethought said.
... the acquisition of Forethought is the first significant one for Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash. Forethought would remain in Sunnyvale, giving Microsoft a Silicon Valley presence.
For many years, Microsoft has led the market with its program PowerPoint. Zongker and Salesin (2003) estimated a market share of 95% in 2003, and a Forrester study (Montalbano, 2009) widely confirmed this number, stating that only 8% of enterprise customers use alternative products.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)PowerPoint's two creators ... Robert Gaskins was the visionary entrepreneur ... with major programming done by Dennis Austin, an old chum ... .
PowerPoint was not at all in their original plan. ... [the founders] Pohlman and Campbell's idea was to bring a graphical-software environment like the Xerox Alto's to the hugely popular but graphically challenged [IBM] PC. ... Rather than liquidate the firm, management and investors decided to "restart" Forethought ... .
... Forethought began to develop a software product of its own. This new effort was the brainchild of Robert Gaskins, an accomplished computer scientist who'd been hired to lead Forethought's product development.
'We're quite happy to have people know our plan is to leverage our Mac experience with Microsoft Windows,' says Robert Gaskins, vice president of development.
[Strategic Investment Group head Dan] Eilers stressed ... 'we are going to make minority investments in companies that add value to Apple computers and thereby increase the sales of Apple computers over time.'
I wrote and presented a proposal to Bill Gates for a new piece of software for the personal computer, specifically to help people create presentations ... .
The Forethought group will become Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit, forming a permanent Microsoft development and marketing facility in Sunnyvale, California. With a site in California, Microsoft hopes to recruit programmers who might not want to relocate to Washington, [Microsoft president Jon] Shirley said.
I'll just say that if you're in the business of putting on briefings and otherwise making presentations, you might want to seriously contemplate getting a Mac II just so you can use this program; it's that good. Highly recommended.
A special promotion announced last week by Microsoft Corp. enables Macintosh customers to buy four of the company's business applications at a 35 percent discount. The special edition, called The Microsoft Office, includes Word 4.0, Excel 2.2, PowerPoint 2.01, and Mail 1.37. The package sells for $849; if purchased separately, the programs would cost $1,310, the company said. The promotion is available until the end of the year.
Microsoft last week announced the release of The Microsoft Office for Windows, which bundles three of the company's popular Windows applications—Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—for significantly less than they would cost separately. The product brings to the Windows environment basically the equivalent of The Microsoft Office for Macintosh, which was announced a year ago.
Graphics/DOS ... 1 Harvard Graphics (Software Publishing), 2 Freelance + (Lotus) ... .Alt URL
... graphics presentation program, Harvard Presentation Graphics, introduced last week. ... will be available in March ... .
... Freelance Plus, the first new release of Freelance since Lotus acquired the graphics package from Graphics Communications Inc. in June.Alt URL
Harvard Graphics gained the top spot this year, and now outsells Freelance Plus by a three-to-two margin.Alt URL
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[Microsoft president Jon] Shirley ... said that Microsoft has no firm plans currently to develop an MS-DOS version of PowerPoint.
Data from the Software Publishers Association and other sources show that in 1992, while overall sales of application products grew only 12 percent, sales of Windows-based applications grew by nearly 100 percent. At least a dozen companies besides Microsoft have sold more than 1 million units of Windows applications.
... in 1997, without question the market leader was Microsoft Corp.'s PowerPoint, which sold more than 4 million copies and controls 85 percent of the market.Additional archives: August 26, 2017.
For many years, Microsoft has led the market with its program PowerPoint. Zongker and Salesin (2003) estimated a market share of 95% in 2003, and a Forrester study (Montalbano, 2009) widely confirmed this number, stating that only 8% of enterprise customers use alternative products. ... we confirm the prior estimates ... .Embedded citations: (1) Zongker, Douglas E.; Salesin, David H. (2003). "On Creating Animated Presentations" (PDF). SCA '03 Symposium on Computer Animation 2003. Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation, San Diego, CA, July 26–27, 2003. Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland: Eurographics Association. pp. 298–308. ISBN 978-1-58113-659-3. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 22, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2017. (2) Montalbano, Elizabeth (June 4, 2009). "Forrester: Microsoft Office in No Danger From Competitors". PC World. ISSN 0737-8939. Archived from the original on August 16, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
... in 1997, without question the market leader was Microsoft Corp.'s PowerPoint, which sold more than 4 million copies and controls 85 percent of the market.Additional archives: August 26, 2017.
[McNealy:] ' ... we've had three unbelievable record-breaking fiscal quarters since we banned PowerPoint. Now, I would argue that every company in the world, if they would just ban PowerPoint, would see their earnings skyrocket. Employees would stand around going, "What do I do? Guess I've got to go to work."'Additional archives: September 23, 2017.
PowerPoint—the must-have presentation software of the corporate world—has infiltrated the schoolhouse. In the coming weeks, students from 12th grade to, yes, kindergarten will finish science projects and polish end-of-the-year presentations on computerized slide shows ... . Software designed for business people has found an audience among the spiral notebook set.
Higher education has certainly not been immune from the growing influence of presentation software. ... Five years ago, none of our department's classrooms were equipped to show multimedia slides. At present, all of our classrooms have been upgraded with such technology, and faculty are actively encouraged to incorporate slides into their lectures. Our institution is certainly not alone in this trend. A large number of educators in the United States use PowerPoint in their classrooms ... [with 84 references to earlier studies].
These days scientists ... cannot lecture without PowerPoint.
The use of sophisticated visuals in the courtroom has boomed in recent years, thanks to research on the power of show-and-tell. ... In one civil case in Los Angeles County, a plaintiff spent $60,000 on a PowerPoint slide show.
... They're mounted in the helmet so that when you turn and look, there's this little screen that shows the checklist. Now in this case, I've written the checklists and put them in PowerPoint, so we just launch a PowerPoint slide show. ... It's a real treat to use.
Old-fashioned slide briefings, designed to update generals on troop movements, have been a staple of the military since World War II. But in only a few short years PowerPoint has altered the landscape.
The complete set of PowerPoint slides that Iran used during a meeting with world powers are now public.
... a subculture of PowerPoint enthusiasts is teaching the old application new tricks, and may even be turning a dry presentation format into a full-fledged artistic medium.
With his newest project, David Byrne has tried not only to see it [PowerPoint] anew, but also to use it in the least likely of all applications: a medium for creative expression.
And no, Steve Jobs did not invent the style. He just happened to use it very effectively.
... with new research showing that it remains as popular with young tech-savvy users as it is with the Baby Boomers. An online poll by YouGov showed that 81 per cent of UK Snapchat users agreed that PowerPoint was a great tool for making presentations. ... long -form prose has become increasingly unpopular with modern users. PowerPoint, with its capacity to be highly visual, bridges the wordy world of yesterday with the visual future of tomorrow.
In the 1990s, the outward signs of form over substance are field grade officers grinding out slick PowerPoint briefing charts ... .
[Trans.] The corporate world can be an art object.
Version 3.0 now includes a PowerPoint Viewer that runs on any Windows 3.1 machine and can be distributed freely with your presentation files. ... A major advance ... is the use of embedded TrueType fonts ... ensuring that the appearance of your presentation is completely repeatable on any machine equipped with the viewer.
... the forthcoming version of PowerPoint 4.0, which is part of Office 4.2. ... Microsoft said it is packaging separate ... versions for 68000-based Macintoshes and for newer PowerPC-based Power Macintoshes, all in one shrink-wrapped box.
Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) today announced that Office v. X would be available to the public on November 19. ... Office v. X runs natively on OS X – it will not run under OS 9.
... less than a month after the software officially launched.
PowerPoint Mobile—a new addition to the suite—doubles as a powerful sleep-aid.
Office v. X requires OS X 10.1 ['Puma']or later to run ... PowerPoint X ... benefit[s] from OS X technologies ... .
The case of the standardisation of two ISO electronic document formats, the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML) ... In this case, the attempt to design a de jure standard in fact produced even greater entrenchment of the existing de facto standard it was designed to replace.
All Formats (66,169) ... Print book (23,696), eBook (3,475), Thesis/dissertation (1,078) ... Article (18,085) ... Video (3,537) ...
PowerPoint's two creators ... Robert Gaskins was the visionary entrepreneur ... with major programming done by Dennis Austin, an old chum ... .
Old-fashioned slide briefings, designed to update generals on troop movements, have been a staple of the military since World War II. But in only a few short years PowerPoint has altered the landscape.
Microsoft made these Desktop Bridge apps—which company officials previously referred to as the "Office in the Windows Store apps"—available to Windows 10 S users in preview form last Summer.