Add a picture, shape, and more Go to the Insert tab. To add a picture: In the Images section, select Pictures. In the Insert Picture From menu, select the source you want.
Browse for the picture you want, select it, and then select Insert. Need more help? Join the discussion. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! That is where I came in. I was working in a start-up called Forethought, where I had been managing the design and development of exactly that product, alongside programmers Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin.
We had planned to release it on Windows, before realising Microsoft's system was unable to support it in its current state. So we switched our efforts to creating a version for Apple Computer's new Macintosh, which had been released in Sensing a demand for the software, Apple helped fund the program's development with its first venture capital investment. Microsoft then got in touch and offered to buy us, weeks before launch in early We didn't accept the initial offer, but it didn't give up.
While PowerPoint 1. PowerPoint became the first acquisition made by the company, creating a new business unit located in Silicon Valley. There was no plan for how to manage PowerPoint from Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, near Seattle, because it had never before had a distant unit.
This vacuum allowed my team to carry on with surprising independence for more than five years. We were kept hard at work by the incentive of completing our own product vision. After the acquisition, it took three more years of programming to improve Windows and create a version of PowerPoint for it. When both were finished in , Bill Gates used PowerPoint to dramatically demonstrate the new capabilities of Windows 3.
The best part was that these transitions and effects required no programming knowledge by the end user. From version 97 onwards, PowerPoint came up with new features and better templates that improved according to the different UIs and graphics introduced with the passage of time.
Before there was the Modern UI, who can forget Windows 98 or Windows especially if you are a child of the 90s , which now seems like a UI for a bit game. However, it was not only the UI but other major features that evolved PowerPoint with the passage of time, including the improved Ribbon UI, better formatting tools, web integration, video and audio embedding features and more. PowerPoint releases for Microsoft Windows between included PowerPoint , , , and , whereas, the Mac versions between included; PowerPoint , , X, , and The latest version of PowerPoint for Mac till date is version Within a year, the company ran into difficulties.
For one, the developers grew deeply concerned about which personal computers, if any, would be powerful enough to run Foundation. The Apple Lisa had the horsepower, but it was already failing in the market, while the Macintosh was deemed too feeble. More worrying was Oracle's announcement that it would need another year to deliver on its contract for the database code.
This meant that the launch of Foundation would be intolerably delayed. Forethought was running perilously low on funds, and it didn't have the resources to develop a database on its own. The company was facing, literally, an existential crisis. Work on Foundation was set aside, while the firm focused on software publishing—that is, manufacturing, marketing, and supporting computer programs written by others.
Forethought's publishing arm produced software for the Apple Macintosh under the brand Macware. And it was a success. Its biggest hit, oddly enough, was a database program called FileMaker. Several months after the release of PowerPoint 1. Photos: Dennis Austin. With brightening finances from sales of FileMaker, Forethought began to develop a new software product of its own.
This new effort was the brainchild of Robert Gaskins , an accomplished computer scientist who'd been hired to lead Forethought's product development. Gaskins was a polymath who had simultaneously pursued Ph. He in turn hired a bright young software developer named Dennis Austin , who had previously developed compilers at Burroughs and contributed to a GUI operating system at a laptop startup.
Gaskins and Austin worked closely to conceptualize, design, and specify Forethought's new product. Gaskins spotted an opportunity in presentation software and believed they could apply the PARC idiom to this application.
He envisioned the user creating slides of text and graphics in a graphical, WYSIWYG environment, then outputting them to mm slides, overhead transparencies, or video displays and projectors, and also sharing them electronically through networks and electronic mail.
The presentation would spring directly from the mind of the business user, without having to first transit through the corporate art department.
While Gaskins's ultimate aim for this new product, called Presenter, was to get it onto IBM PCs and their clones, he and Austin soon realized that the Apple Macintosh was the more promising initial target. Designs for the first version of Presenter specified a program that would allow the user to print out slides on Apple's newly released laser printer, the LaserWriter, and photocopy the printouts onto transparencies for use with an overhead projector.
Austin quickly got to work programming Presenter in Apple Pascal on a Lisa computer, eventually switching to a Macintosh. He was joined in the effort by Tom Rudkin , an experienced developer, and the pair hewed as closely as possible to the Macintosh's user interface and modes of operation.
Indeed, the source code for Presenter included Apple-provided code for handling text, which Apple used in its own word processor, MacWrite. In April , Forethought introduced its new presentation program to the market very much as it had been conceived, but with a different name. Presenter was now PowerPoint 1. PowerPoint then became Microsoft's presentation software, first just for the Macintosh and later also for Windows.
The Forethought team became Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit, which Gaskins led for five years, while Austin and Rudkin remained the principal developers of PowerPoint for about 10 years. The unit became Microsoft's first outpost in the region, and PowerPoint is still developed there to this day. While PowerPoint was a success from the start, it nevertheless faced stiff competition, and for several years, Lotus Freelance and Software Publishing's Harvard Graphics commanded larger market shares.
Because most users of personal computers required both a word processor and a spreadsheet program, Microsoft's price for Office proved compelling. PowerPoint's competitors, on the other hand, resented the tactic as giving away PowerPoint for free. And for more than a quarter century, Microsoft's competitive logic proved unassailable. These days, the business software market is shifting again, and Microsoft Office must now compete with similar bundles that are entirely free, from the likes of Google, LibreOffice, and others.
Productivity software resides more often than not in the cloud, rather than on the user's device. Meanwhile, the dominant mode of personal computing globally has firmly shifted from the desktop and laptop to the smartphone. As yet, no new vision of personal computing like the one that came from Xerox PARC in the s has emerged.
And so for the moment, it appears that PowerPoint, as we know it, is here to stay. David C. To continue operating during pandemic-related shutdowns, organizations around the world underwent digital transformations.
Examples include using remote technology to collaborate with employees and customers and employing automation to improve customer experiences. Now, as the world tries to determine the new normal, many companies are expanding the use of digital transformation as a tool for growth.
A recent McKinsey survey on digital transformation during the COVID pandemic shows that organizations sped up the digitization of their customer and supply chain operations after more consumers shifted to online ordering. Companies that lost revenue in the past few years tended to be behind in using digital technology, the survey found. How can you ensure your organization is prepared for a digital society? Understanding Key Concepts. Technical professionals can come away with an understanding of how digital transformation changes organizations and reshapes market niches while learning about the concept of technological ecosystems.
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