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Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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Rhys Jeremiah has been working in IT after graduating from Bristol University with a degree in mathematics. He started writing database applications for a large insurance company and quickly moved into web development, the largest site for a major international motor manufacturer. Although now teaching mathematics, he still manages some IT work. He currently lives in Cardiff, Wales with Sarah, his wife, and their children Lloyd and Carys.
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Will online applications ever replace the ones we use on our desktops? Will Google’s slew of online programs shake the Microsoft juggernaut of Office programs? There are no clear answers yet, but the battle lines are getting drawn more distinctly now as Google prepares to launch its presentation program in direct confrontation to PowerPoint.
However, there’s a larger question there waiting to be asked: will users be able to play these presentations offline, and project them? That’s going to be a more important issue for presentations than for documents and spreadsheets since presentations are projected or broadcasted to hundreds and thousands of users.
We’ll look for those answers and share them with you. Meanwhile, there’s more information on Google’s so called PowerPoint killer.
The Inquirer reported that it’s been known for a long while that Google will at some point take on PowerPoint with a web-based presentations package. The breaking news is that the coming-out party for the software is any day now. Called Presently, the slideshow program is likely to be based in part on code Google bought through the acquisitions of Zenter and Tonic Systems earlier this year.
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Tagged as: Companion, Google, Google Slides, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Zenter
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Microsoft has announced on Wednesday, a $60 web-based version of the company’s Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 software that will be exclusively available to college students. Microsoft dubbed their latest promotion as the “The Ultimate Steal” and will run until April 30, 2008. The promotion already started in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and will be available to France, Italy, and Spain starting September 20, 2007.
Read more on the CBR Online site.
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Microsoft and Google are expected to ramp up their competition in the emerging hosted office productivity market at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Google is expected to unveil a wiki component to its Google Apps service, as well as a hosted PowerPoint competitor, while Microsoft is expected to deliver a bundle of software and services apps under its Windows Live brand.
Read more on the CBR Online site.
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To advance and succeed in your career, you need more than just technical skills. You also need to be able to present your ideas clearly and persuasively. Here are some suggestions that may help you in that regard. They assume you are in front of a group, using the ubiquitous PowerPoint and a projector.
Calvin Sun explains more on the TechRepublic site.
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