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Easily the most used presentation development tool on the planet, Microsoft PowerPoint hasn’t seen a significant upgrade to its functionality or its basic engine since the Office 2000 version. But with Office 2007 Beta 2 now fully underway, the company’s senior product manager for the Professional Plus suite, Mark Alexieff, showed off the completely rewritten graphics engine for PowerPoint 2007, along with its much-anticipated ribbon control, in a demonstration for TechEd last Friday.
Read more on the TGGDaily site.
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PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2007
It’s happening again. Self-proclaimed soothsayers are predicting the beginning of the end of Microsoft PowerPoint. Frankly, we have lost count of how many times this has happened before. To give due credit, I quite like S5, the new set of simple standards that is built on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Yes, S5 is the new competition.
So, what’s different this time? And how is S5 better? Frankly, S5 still leaves many questions unanswered and for anyone who has seen the look and polish of PowerPoint 2007, it really is premature to compare S5 with PowerPoint.
But let us not discount S5. It has its advantages. About disadvantages, it’s not too easy to create S5 presentations for ordinary folks although some people might tell you that S5 is so easy; all you need to do is edit simple XHTML files!
Yes, S5 has its advantages. For simple presentations, S5 has a much better output than PowerPoint’s own HTML output that is bloated and slow over not-so-fast internet connections. So, what if someone created a S5 output add-in for PowerPoint? That would be the best use of both technologies!
Here are some links to get you started with S5:
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Companion Programs
Tagged as: Online Presentations, PowerPoint Alternatives, S5
In March, Google bought an online word processor, Writely. Recently, it launched the Google Spreadsheet. What’s next? Maybe a Microsoft PowerPoint wannabe?
That’s what a recent report from Gartner speculates. Actually, the scenario is that Google will buy Thumbstacks, which is a Web2.0 presentation app.
Tom Taulli discusses more on the Blogging Stocks site.
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Companion Programs
Tagged as: Google, Google Slides, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint
Cliff Atkinson advises the senior leadership of some of the world’s largest companies on how they can engage the organizational phenomenon called PowerPoint.
In this interview Cliff discusses his book, storyboarding inside PowerPoint, and shares some ideas.
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Interviews
Tagged as: AutoContent Wizard, Beyond Bullet Points, Cliff Atkinson, Interviews, PowerPoint
Microsoft has released the 11.2.4 update for Microsoft Office 2004 for the Mac that fixes vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. This update also fixes issues in Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 and Entourage 2004, and it includes all of the improvements released in all previous Office 2004 updates.
Download the update from the Microsoft site.
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PowerPoint 2004
Tagged as: Mac, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2004
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