History of MS Power Point
PowerPoint 1.0 was actually derived from a product called Presenter that was developed by Forethought Inc.(Bob Gaskins and Dennis Austin) in early 1987. Presenter was built for Macintosh II computers with special graphics cards (supporting a whopping 236 colors). It was arguably the first personal computer program directed at creating presentation slides. (Up to this point, graphical slide design was largely the domain of large service bureaus like Genigraphics, which charged $240 an hour for time on its $50,000 computer-design stations.) Microsoft purchased Presenter in August of the same year for $14 million, a huge sum at the time, but probably one of smartest checks Bill Gates ever cut.(Stevenson Consulting). PowerPoint will celebrate its 20th birth day in this year of 2007. 1987,September : PowerPoint 1.0 for Mac and DOS was released. Windows had not been invented yet. 1988 : Version 2. Developed jointly by Microsoft and GeniGraphics.The later also offer a slide printing service in a 35 mm high quality slides.It supports 16.8 million colours. 1990 : First Windows version released 1990 Onward : Part of MS Office suit 1993 : This was the first Microsoft product that required Windows. Specifically it required users to upgrade to Windows 3.1.
1994 : Version 4 was released in the February
1995 : Known as PowerPoint 95 this release was bundled with the Office 95 suite. This release probably represents the most significant step in PowerPoint's evolution as it was completely rewritten in C++.
1997 : Known as PowerPoint 97, this was part of Office 97. The main change with this release related to the outline view.
1999 : Known as PowerPoint 2000, this was part of Office 2000 offering. With no major changes introduced most users did not find the upgrade worthwhile.
2001 : Released Power Point 2002 Xp . Features like comparing and merging,drawing animation path,venn diagram,master slide,slide design task pane etc introduced in Powerpoint version XP. 2003 : Known as PowerPoint 2003, this is part of Office 2003 suite. The new features in this version are primarily focused on Smart Tag enhancements and the Package for CD / Pack and Go functionality.
2007 : PowerPoint "12" (PowerPoint 2007) arrives sometime in the first quarter of 2007, it looks as if the biggest benefit will be the ability to dress up presentations with a vast library of templates and image galleries.
Next release for PowerPoint is yet to be announced .The publishers are busy in upgrading their latest version i.e. 2007
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Mrinmoy Majumder
1994 : Version 4 was released in the February
1995 : Known as PowerPoint 95 this release was bundled with the Office 95 suite. This release probably represents the most significant step in PowerPoint's evolution as it was completely rewritten in C++.
1997 : Known as PowerPoint 97, this was part of Office 97. The main change with this release related to the outline view.
1999 : Known as PowerPoint 2000, this was part of Office 2000 offering. With no major changes introduced most users did not find the upgrade worthwhile.
2001 : Released Power Point 2002 Xp . Features like comparing and merging,drawing animation path,venn diagram,master slide,slide design task pane etc introduced in Powerpoint version XP. 2003 : Known as PowerPoint 2003, this is part of Office 2003 suite. The new features in this version are primarily focused on Smart Tag enhancements and the Package for CD / Pack and Go functionality.
2007 : PowerPoint "12" (PowerPoint 2007) arrives sometime in the first quarter of 2007, it looks as if the biggest benefit will be the ability to dress up presentations with a vast library of templates and image galleries.
Next release for PowerPoint is yet to be announced .The publishers are busy in upgrading their latest version i.e. 2007
Next Issue : How to learn PowerPoint from the net for FREE ?
Mrinmoy Majumder
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