PowerPoint 25th Anniversary:
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Sweating Bullets:
Notes about Inventing PowerPoint
“PowerPoint was the first presentation software designed for Macintosh and
Windows, received the first venture capital investment ever made by Apple, then
became the first significant acquisition ever made by Microsoft, and is now,
twenty-five years later, installed on over one billion computers worldwide.”
“Robert Gaskins (who invented the idea, managed its design and development,
and then headed the new Microsoft group) has written this book to commemorate
the twenty-fifth anniversary of PowerPoint, recounting stories of the perils
narrowly evaded as a startup, dissecting the complexities of being the first
distant development group in Microsoft, and explaining decisions and insights
that enabled PowerPoint to become a lasting success.”
Published by Vinland Books 2012,
Library of Congress: 2012936438,
Hardcover 6" x 9", 512 pp., $35.00
(ISBN: 978-0-9851424-0-7)
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(ISBN: 978-0-9851424-1-4)
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(ISBN: 978-0-9851424-2-1)
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(ISBN: 978-0-9851424-3-8)
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(ISBN: 978-0-9851424-4-5)
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PowerPoint 1.0 for Macintosh 1987
T-Shirt 25 Year Re-Issue
The original pre-Microsoft packaging for PowerPoint 1.0 for Macintosh,
as shipped by Forethought on 20 April 1987. Now re-issued as a T-shirt for the
25th anniversary of PowerPoint.
T-shirts by American Apparel;
choose any of 21 T-shirt colors, light or dark, in
sizes and styles for men and women. High quality printing by RedBubble.
Order from RedBubble for $20.98
plus shipping, available worldwide.
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Want a signed copy of the book? You can get a free personalized bookplate,
hand-signed by the author, to be pasted into your book. Just send an email note and request
to , and include
(1) the name and address to which you want the bookplate sent, and (2) if you’d like any (necessarily brief) inscription.
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“Robert Gaskins was the visionary entrepreneur who in
the mid-1980s realized that the huge but largely invisible market for
preparing business slides was a perfect match for the coming generation of
graphics-oriented computers.”
—Lee Gomes, 20 June 2007,
The Wall Street Journal
- For much more information about Robert Gaskins and about PowerPoint history, see:
Robert Gaskins Home Page
www.robertgaskins.com
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