Powerpoint's finest hour?

[sbisson]

One of the most common pieces of business software, it's everywhere you go, and badly done, it can be intensely annoying (or mind-numbingly tedious) - and it was Colin Powell's main tool at the UN.

Check out this Guardian piece for a concise history of Powerpoint (without the slides, bullet points and pointless transitions). I have to admit to being surprised to find out that Whitfield Diffie was one of the original authors.

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Death by Powerpoint

[tanais.livejournal.com]

I suffered three fucking days of power point hell at the hands of Microsoft's .NET team and the Biztalk 2000 team. At the end of Day Three I booked a flight to SFO and vowed never to return to the Redmond Campus. It was one of the reasons why I resigned from every computer magazine commission, why every August One/M$ email is deleted at the server,, why I removed every Microsoft product from the house and why I gave up tech journalism. I never ever want to go through that again.

Show me a Powerpoint presentation and I'll walk away. I won't have anything to do with it.