Robert Gaskins, who was responsible for its design, has written about his intended customers: ” I did not target other existing large groups of users of presentations, such as school teachers or military officers. I also did not plan to target people who were not existing users of presentations Our focus was purely on business users, in small and large companies, from one person to the largest multinationals.

PowerPoint use in business grew over its first five years to sales of about 1 million copies annually, for worldwide market share of 63 percent. Not everyone immediately approved of the greater use of PowerPoint for presentations, even in business.

At the same time that PowerPoint was becoming dominant in business settings, it was also being adopted for uses beyond business: “Personal computing The result has been the rise of presentation culture. In an information society, nearly everyone presents. In , at about the same time that Gold was pronouncing PowerPoint’s ubiquity in business, the influential Bell Labs engineer Robert W. Lucky could already write about broader uses: [].

A new language is in the air, and it is codified in PowerPoint. In a family discussion about what to do on a given evening, for example, I feel like pulling out my laptop and giving a Vugraph presentation In church, I am surprised that the preachers haven’t caught on yet.

How have we gotten on so long without PowerPoint? Over a decade or so, beginning in the mid s, PowerPoint began to be used in many communication situations, well beyond its original business presentation uses, to include teaching in schools [] and in universities, [] lecturing in scientific meetings [] and preparing their related poster sessions [] , worshipping in churches, [] making legal arguments in courtrooms, [] displaying supertitles in theaters, [] driving helmet-mounted displays in spacesuits for NASA astronauts, [] giving military briefings, [] issuing governmental reports, [] undertaking diplomatic negotiations, [] [] writing novels, [] giving architectural demonstrations, [] prototyping website designs, [] creating animated video games, [] creating art projects, [] and even as a substitute for writing engineering technical reports, [] and as an organizing tool for writing general business documents.

By , it seemed that PowerPoint was being used everywhere. Julia Keller reported for the Chicago Tribune : [].

In less than a decade, it has revolutionized the worlds of business, education, science, and communications, swiftly becoming the standard for just about anybody who wants to explain just about anything to just about anybody else. From corporate middle managers reporting on production goals to 4th-graders fashioning a show-and-tell on the French and Indian War to church pastors explicating the seven deadly sins PowerPoint seems poised for world domination.

As uses broadened, cultural awareness of PowerPoint grew and commentary about it began to appear. Out of all the analyses of PowerPoint over a quarter of a century, at least three general themes emerged as categories of reaction to its broader use: 1 “Use it less”: avoid PowerPoint in favor of alternatives, such as using more-complex graphics and written prose, or using nothing; [17] 2 “Use it differently”: make a major change to a PowerPoint style that is simpler and pictorial, turning the presentation toward a performance, more like a Steve Jobs keynote; [18] and 3 “Use it better”: retain much of the conventional PowerPoint style but learn to avoid making many kinds of mistakes that can interfere with communication.

An early reaction was that the broader use of PowerPoint was a mistake, and should be reversed. An influential example of this came from Edward Tufte , an authority on information design, who has been a professor of political science, statistics, and computer science at Princeton and Yale, but is best known for his self-published books on data visualization, which have sold nearly 2 million copies as of In , he published a widely-read booklet titled The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, revised in PowerPoint’s convenience for some presenters is costly to the content and the audience.

These costs arise from the cognitive style characteristics of the standard default PP presentation: foreshortening of evidence and thought, low spatial resolution, an intensely hierarchical single-path structure as the model for organizing every type of content, breaking up narratives and data into slides and minimal fragments, rapid temporal sequencing of thin information rather than focused spatial analysis, conspicuous chartjunk and PP Phluff, branding of slides with logotypes, a preoccupation with format not content, incompetent designs for data graphics and tables, and a smirky commercialism that turns information into a sales pitch and presenters into marketeers [italics in original].

Tufte particularly advised against using PowerPoint for reporting scientific analyses, using as a dramatic example some slides made during the flight of the space shuttle Columbia after it had been damaged by an accident at liftoff, slides which poorly communicated the engineers’ limited understanding of what had happened. Many commentators enthusiastically joined in Tufte’s vivid criticism of PowerPoint uses, [] and at a conference held in a decade after Tufte’s booklet appeared one paper claimed that “Despite all the criticism about his work, Tufte can be considered as the single most influential author in the discourse on PowerPoint.

While his approach was not rigorous from a research perspective, his articles received wide resonance with the public at large It’s like denouncing lectures—before there were awful PowerPoint presentations, there were awful scripted lectures, unscripted lectures, slide shows, chalk talks, and so on.

Much of the early commentary, on all sides, was “informal” and “anecdotal”, because empirical research had been limited. A second reaction to PowerPoint use was to say that PowerPoint can be used well, but only by substantially changing its style of use.

This reaction is exemplified by Richard E. Mayer , a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who has studied cognition and learning, particularly the design of educational multimedia, and who has published more than publications, including over 30 books.

Instead, we have to change our PowerPoint habits to align with the way people learn. Tufte had argued his judgment that the information density of text on PowerPoint slides was too low, perhaps only 40 words on a slide, leading to over-simplified messages; [] Mayer responded that his empirical research showed exactly the opposite, that the amount of text on PowerPoint slides was usually too high, and that even fewer than 40 words on a slide resulted in “PowerPoint overload” that impeded understanding during presentations.

Mayer suggested a few major changes from traditional PowerPoint formats: [18]. Mayer’s ideas are claimed by Carmine Gallo to have been reflected in Steve Jobs’s presentations: “Mayer outlined fundamental principles of multimedia design based on what scientists know about cognitive functioning.

Steve Jobs’s slides adhere to each of Mayer’s principles Although most presentation designers who are familiar with both formats prefer to work in the more elegant Keynote system, those same designers will tell you that the majority of their client work is done in PowerPoint. Consistent with its association with Steve Jobs’s keynotes, a response to this style has been that it is particularly effective for “ballroom-style presentations” as often given in conference center ballrooms where a celebrated and practiced speaker addresses a large passive audience, but less appropriate for “conference room-style presentations” which are often recurring internal business meetings for in-depth discussion with motivated counterparts.

A third reaction to PowerPoint use was to conclude that the standard style is capable of being used well, but that many small points need to be executed carefully, to avoid impeding understanding. This kind of analysis is particularly associated with Stephen Kosslyn , a cognitive neuroscientist who specializes in the psychology of learning and visual communication, and who has been head of the department of psychology at Harvard, has been Director of Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and has published some papers and 14 books.

Kosslyn presented a set of psychological principles of “human perception, memory, and comprehension” that “appears to capture the major points of agreement among researchers. For this reason, Kosslyn says, users need specific education to be able to identify best ways to avoid “flaws and failures”: [].

Specifically, we hypothesized and found that the psychological principles are often violated in PowerPoint slideshows across different fields These studies converge in painting the following picture: PowerPoint presentations are commonly flawed; some types of flaws are more common than others; flaws are not isolated to one domain or context; and, although some types of flaws annoy the audience, flaws at the level of slide design are not always obvious to an untrained observer The many “flaws and failures” identified were those “likely to disrupt the comprehension or memory of the material.

Kosslyn observes that these findings could help to explain why the many studies of the instructional effectiveness of PowerPoint have been inconclusive and conflicting, if there were differences in the quality of the presentations tested in different studies that went unobserved because “many may feel that ‘good design’ is intuitively clear.

In Kosslyn wrote a book about PowerPoint, in which he suggested a very large number of fairly modest changes to PowerPoint styles and gave advice on recommended ways of using PowerPoint. In fact, this medium is a remarkably versatile tool that can be extraordinarily effective.

For many purposes, PowerPoint presentations are a superior medium of communication, which is why they have become standard in so many fields. In , an online poll of social media users in the UK was reported to show that PowerPoint “remains as popular with young tech-savvy users as it is with the Baby Boomers,” with about four out of five saying that “PowerPoint was a great tool for making presentations,” in part because “PowerPoint, with its capacity to be highly visual, bridges the wordy world of yesterday with the visual future of tomorrow.

Also in , the Managerial Communication Group of MIT Sloan School of Management polled their incoming MBA students, finding that “results underscore just how differently this generation communicates as compared with older workers.

Two-thirds report that they present on a daily or weekly basis—so it’s no surprise that in-person presentations is the top skill they hope to improve. The trend is toward presentations and slides, and we don’t see any sign of that slowing down. Use of PowerPoint by the U. By , ten years after PowerPoint for Windows appeared, it was already identified as an important feature of U. Old-fashioned slide briefings, designed to update generals on troop movements, have been a staple of the military since World War II.

But in only a few short years PowerPoint has altered the landscape. Just as word processing made it easier to produce long, meandering memos, the spread of PowerPoint has unleashed a blizzard of jazzy but often incoherent visuals.

Instead of drawing up a dozen slides on a legal pad and running them over to the graphics department, captains and colonels now can create hundreds of slides in a few hours without ever leaving their desks.

If the spirit moves them they can build in gunfire sound effects and images that explode like land mines. PowerPoint has become such an ingrained part of the defense culture that it has seeped into the military lexicon. After another 10 years, in and again on its front page the New York Times reported that PowerPoint use in the military was then “a military tool that has spun out of control”: []. Like an insurgency, PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of military commanders and reached the level of near obsession.

The amount of time expended on PowerPoint, the Microsoft presentation program of computer-generated charts, graphs and bullet points, has made it a running joke in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan. Commanders say that behind all the PowerPoint jokes are serious concerns that the program stifles discussion, critical thinking and thoughtful decision-making.

Not least, it ties up junior officers The New York Times account went on to say that as a result some U. James N. He spoke without PowerPoint. McMaster , who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in , followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.

Several incidents, about the same time, gave wide currency to discussions by serving military officers describing excessive PowerPoint use and the organizational culture that encouraged it. Kosslyn sent a joint letter to the editor stressing the institutional culture of the military: ” The problem is not in the tool itself, but in the way that people use it—which is partly a result of how institutions promote misuse. The two generals who had been mentioned in as opposing the institutional culture of excessive PowerPoint use were both in the news again in , when James N.

Mattis became U. Secretary of Defense, [] and H. McMaster was appointed as U. National Security Advisor. It started off as a joke this software is a symbol of corporate salesmanship, or lack thereof but then the work took on a life of its own as I realized I could create pieces that were moving, despite the limitations of the ‘medium. In Byrne toured with a theater piece styled as a PowerPoint presentation.

When he presented it in Berkeley, on March 8, , the University of California news service reported: “Byrne also defended its [PowerPoint’s] appeal as more than just a business tool—as a medium for art and theater. Berkeley alumnus Bob Gaskins and Dennis Austin Eventually, Byrne said, PowerPoint could be the foundation for ‘presentational theater,’ with roots in Brechtian drama and Asian puppet theater. I was terrified. The expressions “PowerPoint Art” or ” pptArt ” are used to define a contemporary Italian artistic movement which believes that the corporate world can be a unique and exceptional source of inspiration for the artist.

The wide use of PowerPoint had, by , given rise to ” PowerPoint Viewer is the name for a series of small free application programs to be used on computers without PowerPoint installed, to view, project, or print but not create or edit presentations.

The first version was introduced with PowerPoint 3. Beginning with PowerPoint , a feature called “Package for CD” automatically managed all linked video and audio files plus needed fonts when exporting a presentation to a disk or flash drive or network location, [] and also included a copy of a revised PowerPoint Viewer application so that the result could be presented on other PCs without installing anything.

The latest version that runs on Windows “was created in conjunction with PowerPoint , but it can also be used to view newer presentations created in PowerPoint and PowerPoint All transitions, videos and effects appear and behave the same when viewed using PowerPoint Viewer as they do when viewed in PowerPoint As of May [update] , the last versions of PowerPoint Viewer for all platforms have been retired by Microsoft; they are no longer available for download and no longer receive security updates.

PowerPoint Online. Early versions of PowerPoint, from through versions 1. A stable binary format called a. It was based on the Compound File Binary Format. The “. Binary filename extensions []. Binary media types [].

XML filename extensions []. XML media types []. The standardization process was contentious. PowerPoint version The reason for the two variants was explained by Microsoft: []. The first objective was for the Open XML standard to provide an XML-based file format that could fully support conversion of the billions of existing Office documents without any loss of features, content, text, layout, or other information, including embedded data.

The second was to specify a file format that did not rely on Microsoft-specific data types. They created two variants of Open XML—Transitional, which supports previously-defined Microsoft-specific data types, and Strict, which does not rely on them. The PowerPoint. Library of Congress.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Presentation application, part of Microsoft Office. For other uses, see Power point disambiguation.

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A special promotion announced last week by Microsoft Corp. The special edition, called The Microsoft Office, includes Word 4. The promotion is available until the end of the year. Microsoft last week announced the release of The Microsoft Office for Windows, which bundles three of the company’s popular Windows applications—Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—for significantly less than they would cost separately.

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One of them will be not executed and an error message will be printed on the screen. If your Office is got from Microsoft, this step is required. On the contrary, if you install Office from a Volume ISO file, this is optional so just skip it if you want. View all posts by admin. You must be logged in to post a comment. It has Word , Excel and PowerPoint The migration included all existing workspaces, documents, and sharing permissions.

The updated version featured caching, hardware acceleration, HTML5 video , quick views, cleaner arrangement of photos and infinite scrolling. Microsoft also doubled the file size limit from 50 MB to MB per file. Files and folders shared with a user, including those in Windows Live Groups , were also accessible in the new interface. This update also allowed users to see how much storage they had and how much they had used , a feature that had been removed in the previous update as part of the redesign.

On April 22, , Microsoft released a SkyDrive desktop app for Windows Vista , 7 and 8 , as well as macOS , allowing users to synchronize files on SkyDrive, much like Windows Live Mesh , and to “fetch” files on their computer via the web browser. In addition, SkyDrive also provided additional storage available for purchase and reduced the free storage space for new users to 7 GB from 25 GB.

Existing users were offered a free upgrade offer to retain their 25 GB of free storage. For SkyDrive. For the SkyDrive for Windows desktop and macOS applications, the update brought new performance improvements to photo uploads and the sync experience.

The update also improved the SkyDrive API with the removal of file type restrictions, ability to upload images in their full resolution, as well as a new SkyDrive file picker for opening and saving files. Microsoft became involved in a lawsuit with British television broadcaster Sky UK for using the word “Sky”, resulting in a High Court ruling in June that the service’s brand breached Sky’s trademark. Sky allowed Microsoft to continue using the brand “for a reasonable period of time to allow for an orderly transition to a new brand”.

On June 18, , Microsoft launched an improved design of OneDrive for the web. These changes caused major controversy with users, some of whom petitioned Microsoft to reverse the plans. By November 21, , in response to Microsoft’s November 2 announcement, over 70, people had taken to the official OneDrive uservoice to voice their concerns. As of July [update] the service offers 5 GB of free storage for new users. The amount of storage available has changed several times.

Initially, the service provided 7 GB of storage and, for one year, an additional 3 GB of free storage to students. Users in some regions may need to have a certain payment card or PayPal account to pay. Upon the re-launch as OneDrive, monthly payment plans were introduced, along with the ability to earn up to 5 GB of free storage for referring new users to OneDrive MB each , and 3 GB if users enable automatic uploads of photos using the OneDrive mobile apps on smartphones.

In June it was announced that OneDrive’s default storage would increase to 15 GB, putting it in line with its competitor Google Drive. An additional 15 GB were offered for activating camera roll backup on a mobile device, putting it ahead of Google Drive until November , when this bonus was cancelled.

The amount of additional storage for Office subscribers also increased to 1 TB. In October Microsoft announced that it would offer unlimited OneDrive storage to all Office subscribers. Any current accounts over this limit could keep the increased storage for at least 12 months. In June , alongside the announcement for the Personal Vault , Microsoft announced that it would increase the OneDrive standalone storage plan from 50 GB to GB at no additional charge, and that it would be giving Office subscribers a new option to add more storage as they need it.

OneDrive initially did not store previous versions of files, except for Microsoft Office formats. OneDrive implements a “recycle bin” ; files the user chooses to delete are stored there for a time, without counting as part of the user’s allocation, and can be reinstated until they are ultimately purged from OneDrive.

On Windows 10, OneDrive can utilize Files On-Demand, where files synchronized with OneDrive show up in file listings, but do not require any disk space.

As soon as the content of the file is required, the file is downloaded in the background. Microsoft added Office for the web known at the time as Office Web Apps, later renamed to Office Online and again to just Office capability to OneDrive in its “Wave 4” update, allowing users to upload, create, edit and share Word , Excel , PowerPoint and OneNote documents directly within a web browser. In addition, Office for the web allows multiple users to simultaneously co-author Excel documents in a web browser, and co-author OneNote documents with another web user or the desktop application.

Users can also view the version history of Office documents stored on OneDrive. OneDrive includes an online text editor that allows users to view and edit files in plain text format, such as text files and batch files. This online editor includes a find-and-replace feature and a way to manage file merging conflicts. OneDrive can use geo-location data for photos uploaded to the service, and will automatically display a map of the tagged location.

OneDrive also allows users to tag people in photos uploaded via the web interface or via Windows Photo Gallery. Photos uploaded to OneDrive can be played as an automatic slideshow. Microsoft has released OneDrive client applications for Android , [16] iOS , [55] Windows 8 , [14] [32] Windows 10 , Windows 10 Mobile , [56] Windows Phone [55] Xbox , [57] and Xbox One [22] that allow users to browse, view and organize files stored on their OneDrive cloud storage.

In addition to the client apps, OneDrive is integrated into Windows 8. OneDrive in Windows 8. Along with the use of reparse points , these changes allow files to be accessed directly from OneDrive as if they are stored locally. The OneDrive app was also updated to include a local file manager. Unlike on Windows 8, use of OneDrive on Windows 8. Additionally, the Fetch feature does not work on Windows 8. In an update on July 4, , OneDrive desktop client started showing an error message to the effect that the local OneDrive folder must be located on an NTFS volume only.

Microsoft further commented that this was always the requirement; it had merely fixed a bug in which the warning was not displayed. Microsoft also denied this feature having anything to do with the forthcoming OneDrive Files On-Demand.

Microsoft Office , starting with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office for Mac , allows users to directly open or save documents to OneDrive, or simultaneously edit shared documents with other users. Changes are synchronized when a document is saved and, where conflicts occur, the saving user can choose which version to keep; users can also use several different desktop and web programs to edit the same shared document. Microsoft OneNote users can sync one or more of their notebooks using OneDrive.

Once a notebook is selected for sharing, OneDrive copies the notebook from the user’s computer to OneDrive, and that online copy then becomes the original for all future changes. The originating copy remains on the user’s hard drive but is no longer updated by OneNote.

Users can switch back to an offline-only version of the notebook by manually changing its location in OneNote, but unpredictable results may occur, including the OneNote application crashing and loss of notebook data under certain conditions. In September Microsoft announced Personal Vault. Personal Vault has a strong authentication method or a second step of identity verification, such as fingerprint, face, PIN, or a code sent via email or SMS.

Personal Vault is not available in macOS app. These embedded documents allow anyone who visits these web pages to interact with them, such as browsing an embedded PowerPoint slideshow or perform calculations within an embedded Excel spreadsheet.

A software development kit SDK is available for. Data stored on OneDrive is subject to monitoring by Microsoft, and any content that is in violation of Microsoft’s Code of Conduct is subject to removal and may lead to temporary or permanent shutdown of the account.

This has led to privacy concerns in relation to data stored on OneDrive. Microsoft has a similarly named but unrelated software plus service offering called OneDrive for Business previously SkyDrive Pro [20] [21]. While OneDrive is a personal storage service on the web, OneDrive for Business is a managed cloud storage for business users that replaces SharePoint Workspace.

The physical medium on which the information is stored can be either hosted on-premises or purchased as service subscription from Microsoft. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. File hosting and synchronization service operated by Microsoft. List of languages.

 
 

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