Presentations can be saved and run in any of the file formats : the default. In , Gaskins joined a failing Silicon Valley software firm called Forethought and hired a software developer, Dennis Austin.
Bob and Dennis refined the vision and designed "Presenter" to implement it. Dennis created the original version of the program with Tom Rudkin. Bob later suggested the new name "PowerPoint" which finally became the product name. PowerPoint 1. It ran in black and white, generating text-and-graphics pages for overhead transparencies.
The first color Macintoshes soon came to market, though, and a full color version of PowerPoint shipped a year after the original. The user manual with the first release was unique. It was a blue hardbound book that Forethought believed executives wouldn't mind having on their desks as in most executives didn't want to have anything to do with computer and computer manuals.
Updating the manual proved to be expensive. The hardbound book manual was soon abandoned. In the first Windows versions were produced.
Since , PowerPoint has been a standard part of the Microsoft Office suite of applications. Being part of Microsoft Office has allowed PowerPoint to become the world's most widely used presentation program. As Microsoft Office files are often sent from one computer user to another, arguably the most important feature of any presentation software — such as Apple's Keynote , or OpenOffice.
However, because of PowerPoint's ability to embed content from other applications through OLE , some kinds of presentations become highly tied to the Windows platform, meaning that even PowerPoint on Mac OS cannot always successfully open its own files originating in the Windows version.
Supporters and critics generally agree that PowerPoint's ease of use can save a lot of time for people who otherwise would have used other types of visual aid — hand-drawn or mechanically typeset slides, blackboards or whiteboards, or overhead projections. That same ease of use means that others who otherwise would not have used visual aids, or would not have given a presentation at all, may be encouraged to make presentations. But as PowerPoint's style, animation, and multimedia abilities have become more sophisticated, and as PowerPoint has become generally easier to produce presentations with even to the point of having an "AutoContent Wizard" suggesting a structure for a presentation , the difference in needs and desires of presenters and audiences has become more noticeable.
One major source of criticism of PowerPoint comes from Yale professor of statistics and graphic design Edward Tufte. In his essay The cognitive style of PowerPoint , Tufte criticizes many emergent properties of the software:.
Although many of Tufte's points seem to be well taken, a number of experts strongly disagree with his analysis for a variety of reasons — see the article "Five Experts Disagree with Tufte on PowerPoint" here. Cliff Atkinson, a management consultant at Sociable Media , has written extensively about organizational issues related to PowerPoint, including interviews with experts from the fields of marketing, cognitive science, law, information design, and more.
It's the AIDS of management. He also reports that 3M has strongly discouraged the use of PowerPoint because "it removes subtlety and thinking", and the company believes that it causes people to focus on pretty pictures rather than doing what they are paid to do.
Prior to the introduction of computer based presentations, 3M was the primary manufacturer of the overhead projector, now made obsolete by PowerPoint. However, because of PowerPoint's ability to embed content from other applications through OLE, some kinds of presentations become highly tied to the Windows platform, meaning that even PowerPoint on Mac OS X cannot always successfully open its own files originating in the Windows version.
Ease of use also encourages those who otherwise would not have used visual aids, or would not have given a presentation at all, to make presentations. As PowerPoint's style, animation , and multimedia abilities have become more sophisticated, and as PowerPoint has become generally easier to produce presentations with even to the point of having an "AutoContent Wizard" suggesting a structure for a presentation—initially started as a joke by the Microsoft engineers but later included as a serious feature in the s , the difference in needs and desires of presenters and audiences has become more noticeable.
One major source of criticism of PowerPoint comes from Yale professor of statistics and graphic design Edward Tufte, who criticizes many emergent properties of the software: It is used to guide and reassure a presenter, rather than to enlighten the audience; Unhelpfully simplistic tables and charts, resulting from the low resolution of computer displays; The outliner causing ideas to be arranged in an unnecessarily deep hierarchy, itself subverted by the need to restate the hierarchy on each slide; Enforcement of the audience's linear progression through that hierarchy whereas with handouts, readers could browse and relate items at their leisure ; Poor typography and chart layout, from presenters who are poor designers and who use poorly designed templates and default settings; Simplistic thinking, from ideas being squashed into bulleted lists, and stories with beginning, middle, and end being turned into a collection of disparate, loosely disguised points.
This may present a kind of image of objectivity and neutrality that people associate with science, technology, and "bullet points". Versions for the Mac OS include:. Note: There is no PowerPoint 5. There is no version 5. All of the Office 95 products have OLE 2 capacity - moving data automatically from various programs - and PowerPoint 7 shows that it was contemporary with Word 7.
There wasn't any version 7. Note: There is no PowerPoint versions 5. All of the Office 95 products have OLE 2 capacity - moving data automatically from various programs - and PowerPoint 7. Microsoft Wiki Explore. Windows families. Windows Windows 11 Windows 10 Windows 8. Windows CE Windows Embedded. Microsoft Surface. European Union Microsoft antitrust case United States v. Microsoft Shared source. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account?
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