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I hope his funeral has a slide presentation with some amazing animations and sound effects! :)
Joking aside, I worked for a big corporation once where our project manager's emails were literally blank, with the actual message in an attached powerpoint.
powerpoint is one of those things that most people don’t think about nowadays, but before presentation software, people had to carry printouts, or slide decks for projectors, maybe laminated sheets for overhead projectors. PowerPoint has saved people a huge amount of work.
I don't think I'm particularly old (only in my 40s) but I'm old enough to have made presentations with transparent sheets on an overhead projector. I don't quite remember how I prepared those sheets (I want to say a printing tracer?).
PowerPoint wasn't the first though, was it? I remember Harvard Graphics and something from Lotus also?
Not sure which of those had vector graphics in the same style as modern PowerPoint (Storyboard was bitmapped), and whether old PowerPoint already had vector graphics.
powerpoint is one of those things that most people don’t think about nowadays, but before presentation software, people had to carry printouts, or slide decks for projectors, maybe laminated sheets for overhead projectors. PowerPoint has saved people a huge amount of work.
I don't think I'm particularly old (only in my 40s) but I'm old enough to have made presentations with transparent sheets on an overhead projector. I don't quite remember how I prepared those sheets (I want to say a printing tracer?).
It feels better than using Powerpoint.
PowerPoint wasn't the first though, was it? I remember Harvard Graphics and something from Lotus also?
PowerPoint wasn't the first though, was it? I remember Harvard Graphics and something from Lotus also?
Aldus Persuasion was far superior to Powerpoint. Sadly it got bought and killed.
Even when it is on preparing PowerPoint slides, text heavy slides are a big no no.
Some days, more time is spent on PowerPoint slides than writing code, or actually engineering. We jokingly call presentation prep work as getting ready to push the PowerPoint to prod.
powerpoint is one of those things that most people don’t think about nowadays, but before presentation software, people had to carry printouts, or slide decks for projectors, maybe laminated sheets for overhead projectors. PowerPoint has saved people a huge amount of work.
Apple invested in the company (Forethought, Inc) before Microsoft aquired it in 1987.