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Microsoft PowerPoint
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- Instance of
- presentation program
- Part of
- Microsoft Office
- Follows
- Multiplan
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Platform
- Microsoft Windows
- Official website
- powerpoint.cloud.microsoft
- Has use
- presentation program
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- official blog URL
- blogs.office.com/en-us/powerpoint
- file extension
- pptx
- software version identifier
- 2312 (Build 17126.20132)
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10011518
- copyright license
- proprietary license
- media type
- application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12
- Commons category
- Microsoft PowerPoint
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Encyclopedic overview
Microsoft PowerPoint, or simply PowerPoint, is a presentation program developed by Microsoft.
It was originally created by Robert Gaskins, Tom Rudkin, and Dennis Austin at a software company named Forethought, Inc. It was released on April 20, 1987, initially for Macintosh computers only. Microsoft acquired PowerPoint for about $14 million three months after it appeared. This was Microsoft's first significant acquisition, and Microsoft set up a new business unit for PowerPoint in Silicon Valley where Forethought had been located.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Microsoft PowerPoint” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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