On April 20, 1987 saw the first version of PowerPoint the light of day. Today, the software celebrates its 36th birthday and since we at i-pointing deal with nothing else every day, we wanted to take a look at the History, origin and development of PowerPoint in more detail.
The PowerPoint pioneers
The year is 1984 and the US-American company Forethought Inc. commissions Robert Gaskins to develop presentation software. The goal: Presenters freedom, greater independence and efficiency in the design and structuring of computer-generated presentations have. The first development under the name "Presenter" was initially only a Macintosh version.
In the In April 1987, Gaskins and his co-developer Dennis Austin presented their version of the presentation software under the name "PowerPoint". Only months later the giant Microsoft took over Forethought Inc.after recognizing the enormous growth potential of PowerPoint. The Rights for marketing and development of the promising software was immediately secured by Microsoft.
The 90s: PowerPoint 2.0 - PowerPoint 95
The second version of the software was introduced in 1988 and was already more technically sophisticated. Now users could Select colors, spell check, color schemes and the option to change them afterwards and much more. But this version was also only for Macintosh.
First PowerPoint 3.0 was launched at the end of 1990 and was developed exclusively for the Windows 3.1 platform. developed. This version had a further technological leap in the development of the software. Full Support for TrueType fonts, presentation templates, editing of imported images and integration of image and sound were some of them.
With the version PowerPoint 95 ended the 90s in the development of PowerPoint.
The 2000s: PowerPoint goes Web & the app revolution
The version 2003 now came with a "moderator view". Tools that are important and useful for moderators during the slideshow - Notes, thumbnails, timestamps, reorganize and edit slides.
PowerPoint 2007 trumps again with new improvements on. These included SmartArt graphics, an improved presenter view and widescreen slide formats. The The next stage in 2010 brought the embedding of video and audio from the web and a Improved processing of both.
The years 2012 and 2013 were once again special milestones for the PowerPoint presentation software. Because now Users:use PowerPoint directly as a web version without installation and as an app on mobile devices use. Because the Editing slides is now also possible on small screens supported.
Despite Competition from Apple (Keynote), open source programs such as Impress and free Google presentation tools PowerPoint is and remains the go-to software when it comes to presentations - and has been since the 1990s.
With the numerous tools that are constantly being refined and functions that are being further developed. PowerPoint is an incredibly versatile piece of software. Through our Decades of expertise in the field of PowerPoint presentation design we have immense insider knowledge, which we share with our Employees and customers share. We organize Individually designed customerWorkshops on the subject of PowerPoint on the basis of which we most important functions and applications explain. Our designers are always at the cutting edge of development and receive also from our expert PowerPoint trainingsin order to continuously expand their know-how.
With this in mind: Happy birthday to the best presentation software!
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Sources:
https://slidelizard.com/de/blog/powerpoint-history-and-versions
http://www.presentationworld.de/powerpoint/geschichte-von-powerpoint/powerpoint.php
