A serious question remains: How did they pitch it without PowerPoint slides?
Harvard Graphics ?
How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M
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Re: How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M
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Yes. Most people who aren't in the tech just launch a word processor (word, libreoffice, etc.) Tech people on Windows use Notepad or a similar GUI program. Vim is used by a tiny, tiny fraction of people in the world.
> Tech people on Windows use Notepad. Tech people on Windows use Notepad++ when they can. Vim is rarely used outside of editing config files on appliances.
This. Notepad++ has been my goto for years. It's tabbed, it does some highlighting. Opens literally anything. I've never wanted for more than Notepad++ offers by default. And if I did... there's plugins.
I know a bunch of people who swear by UltraEdit too. I think Notepad++ vs. UltraEdit is like the far tamer Windows version of Vim vs. Emacs.
Re: How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Tech people on Windows use Notepad. Tech people on Windows use Notepad++ when they can. Vim is rarely used outside of editing config files on appliances.
This. Notepad++ has been my goto for years. It's tabbed, it does some highlighting. Opens literally anything. I've never wanted for more than Notepad++ offers by default. And if I did... there's plugins. I know a bunch of people who swear by UltraEdit too. I think Notepad++ vs. UltraEdit is like the far tamer Windows version of Vim vs. Emacs.
I swear by Autosave. My favorite IDE is N++ and a Powershell window. I code in N++, then click on Powershell and reload the already-saved file.
And a compare plugin does exist as well, it's functional.