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PowerPoint for the web is a free lightweight version of Microsoft PowerPoint available as part of Office on the web, which also includes web versions of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. PowerPoint for the web does not support inserting or editing charts, equations, or audio or video stored on your PC, but they are all displayed in the ...
That year Forethought was purchased by Microsoft Corporation for $14 million (~$32.2 million in 2023). [3] [4] In May 1990 the first Windows 3.0 versions were produced. Since 1990, PowerPoint has been a standard part of the Microsoft Office suite of applications except for the Basic Edition. Microsoft PowerPoint would go on to become the most ...
Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0, Office Manager Office Manager included. Last version for Windows NT 3.5. August 24, 1995 Office 95 (7.0) Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Schedule+, Binder, Access, Bookshelf The first Office version to have the same version number (7.0, inherited from Word 6.0) for all major component products (Word, Excel and so on).
Microsoft Office 4.2 for Windows NT was released in 1994 for i386, Alpha, [141] MIPS and PowerPC [142] architectures, containing Word 6.0 and Excel 5.0 (both 32-bit), [143] PowerPoint 4.0 (16-bit), and Microsoft Office Manager 4.2 (the precursor to the Office Shortcut Bar)).
Many original documents written by Robert Gaskins during the early history of PowerPoint's strategy and development are online for public access. [4] After leaving Microsoft, Gaskins became somewhat renowned as an expert on the history of the English concertina. [5] [6] [7]
Even after Microsoft's acquisition of Forethought in 1987, Austin continued to play a central role in the development of PowerPoint until 1996. An oral history of Austin from the Computer History Museum focuses on his journey in software creation, with a special emphasis on his pivotal contributions to PowerPoint. [3]
If you had a Windows computer before you had the internet, you probably played plenty of Solitaire. Starting in 1990 with Windows 3.0, Microsoft bundled the delightfully frustrating card game into ...
Microsoft 365 is a product family of productivity software, collaboration and cloud-based services owned by Microsoft.It encompasses online services such as Outlook.com, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, programs formerly marketed under the name Microsoft Office (including applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook on Microsoft Windows, macOS, mobile devices, and on the web), and ...