BRAINCHILD FIRST

LEADER MARKET SHARE

DID YOU KNOW? HOW MANY?

DAILY WORDY

CRITICISMS INCLUDE

GOOGLE

POWERPOINT

WAS CREATED BYROBER

T GASKIN

S

& DENNIS

AUSTIN

It was originally called Presentation but changed to PowerPoint in 1987

because of a trademark issue

1992THE

FIRST PUBLIC LAPTOP

PRESENTATION

WAS DELIVERED TO

MICROSOFT EMPLOYEES(In Paris)

1993

IN PC PRESENTATION

PROGRAMMES

BY

POWERPOINT WAS THE MARKET LEADER

95%

20 years later, PowerPoint continues to dominate with an estimated 95% share of the presentation

software market

500THERE

ARE

MILLION

WORLDWIDE

POWERPOINT USERS

M LL ON

BUSINESSES GLOBALLY MAK

E30

POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS PER DAY

13,100,000SEARCH RESULTS GENERATED FOR

‘DEATH BY POWERPOINT’(IN 0.33 SECONDS)

But, used properly, PowerPoint can be the impressive graphic sales tool that it was always intended to be…

… this infographic, for example, was made using PowerPoint

THE PRESENTATION

RATHER THAN THE

AUDIENCE

The average PowerPoint slide contains 40 words (There are 39 on the featured slide)

To learn more about effective business communication with PowerPoint, visit www.activepresence.com/powerpoint-presentations/

IS OFTEN THE FOCUSToo many presenters use slides as speakers notes, relying on bullet-points as a prompt

…ZZZ

In the first instance, PowerPoint was

developed for Mac when Gaskins & Austin worked

for Forethought.

Microsoft bought Forethought in 1987 for

$14 million

Apple then waited until 2003 before releasing

Keynote

POWERPOINT &INTERESTING NOTES ON A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP

PowerPoint was introduced as a business graphics package for managers, professionals and sales people. You probably use it regularly, but do you really know the product? Here, we illustrate some interesting facts and figures about PowerPoint; how it came to be and what is has become…

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Sources: BBC News, Microsoft, RobertGaskins.com