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Microsoft brought out its biggest guns Friday to push its Office Systems conglomeration as a development platform. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates spoke to about 800 ISVs and corporate developers on Friday morning, touting his company’s embrace of XML and Web Services standards with its Office franchise as a good starting point for application development.
With Office itself, we’re exposing more and more extensibility, all of that is done through XML, Gates said.
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To cut a long story short, let me tell you that my first movie capture of a PowerPoint presentation with Snapz Pro X exceeded my expectations. I even played it on Windows using the QuickTime Player and it was smoother than any other presentation capture that I had done on that platform.
Learn how Snapz Pro X makes amazing movies from PowerPoint:mac presentations.
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Many PowerPoint users have hundreds if not thousands of presentations on their computers. And if you are like any of those users, you probably have all the content for tomorrow’s presentation scattered in slides across those hundred presentations. All you need now is a solution that will assemble the slides you need into a new presentation that you can thereafter fine-tune. If you really need a magic potion like that, do look at Slide Executive.
Read the Indezine review of Slide Executive.
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Maybe you’ve been in a conference room when an earnest co-worker dims the lights and fires up a PowerPoint presentation. If the lights were on, this well-meaning individual would see eyes glazing over, as the audience cringes at yet another set of informational graphics, charts, and bullet points…Cascading information from PowerPoint might have its place, but Denning thinks the ability to communicate with people and point them toward the future is just as valuable.
When people are bombarded with information, they sit there looking at you and wondering ‘Who is this suit?’ But when they hear stories they relate to, they realize that you are a human being and they immediately are more engaged.
American business will never replace hard facts as the basis for making decisions. But it can attain desired goals by tapping into the stories we all have and want to share with others.
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Tagged as: Death by PowerPoint, Michael Kinsman, Opinion, Stephen Denning, Storytelling
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