history Microsoft PowerPoint application

history
Microsoft PowerPoint application was first developed by Bob Gaskins and Dennis Austin as a presenter for a company called Forethought, Inc. which later changed their name to the PowerPoint.
In 1987, PowerPoint version 1.0 was released, and a computer that supports the Apple Macintosh. PowerPoint then still use black / white, which can make the page text and graphics for an overhead projector (OHP). A year later, a new version of PowerPoint appear with color support, after the Macintosh color appeared on the market.
Microsoft was acquired Forethought, Inc. and of course the PowerPoint software at a price of approximately 14 million dollars on July 31, 1987. In 1990, Microsoft Windows versions of PowerPoint (version 2.0) appeared on the market, following in the footsteps of Microsoft Windows 3.0. Since 1990, PowerPoint has become an integral part of the standard package of office applications in the Microsoft Office System (except Basic Edition).

New version = New This

The latest version is Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010 (PowerPoint 14), which was released in June 2010, which is a pretty far leap forward in terms of user interface and enhanced graphics capabilities. Moreover, compared with earlier data format is binary data with the extension *. Ppt, this version offers an XML data format with the extension *. Pptx.

operation

In PowerPoint, as well as other presentation software processing, text objects, graphics, video, sound, and other objects are positioned in some of the individual pages called "slide". The term slide in PowerPoint has the same analogy in a slide projector with regular, old-fashioned, due to the advent of computer software that can process a kind of PowerPoint and Impress presentations. Each slide can be printed or displayed on the screen and can navigate through the command of the presenter. Slides can also form the basis of webcasts (a broadcast on the World Wide Web).
PowerPoint offers two types of property movement, the Custom Animations and Transition. Movement Property Entrance, Emphasis, Exit and objects in a slide can be arranged by the Custom Animation, while Transition regulate the movement from one slide to another. Everything can dianimaskan in many ways. The overall design of a presentation can be arranged with menggunakaan Master Slide, and the overall structure of prsentasi can be edited using the Primitive Outliner (Outline).
PowerPoint presentations can save in several formats, namely as follows:
*. PPT (PowerPoint Presentation), which is the binary data and is available in all versions of PowerPoint (including PowerPoint 12)
*. PPS (PowerPoint Show), which is the binary data and is available in all versions of PowerPoint (including PowerPoint 12)
*. POT (PowerPoint Template), which is the binary data and is available in all versions of PowerPoint (including PowerPoint 12)
*. PPTX (PowerPoint Presentation), which is the data in XML and is available only in PowerPoint 12.

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