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PowerPoint is a presentation program developed by Microsoft.
It is part of the Microsoft Office system, and runs on Microsoft
Windows and the Mac OS computer operating systems.
The Windows version can also run on the Linux operating system,
under the Wine compatibility layer.
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Versions for Microsoft Windows include:
* 1990 PowerPoint 2.0 for Windows 3.0
* 1992 PowerPoint 3.0 for Windows 3.1
* 1993 PowerPoint 4.0 (Office 4.x)
* 1995 PowerPoint for Windows 95 (version 7.0) — (Office
95)
* 1997 PowerPoint 97 — (Office 97)
* 1999 PowerPoint 2000 (version 9.0) — (Office 2000)
* 2001 PowerPoint 2002 (version 10) — (Office XP)
* 2003 PowerPoint 2003 (version 11) — (Office 2003)
* 2007 PowerPoint 2007 (version 12) — (Office 2007)
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Versions for the Mac OS include:
* 1987 PowerPoint 1.0 for Mac OS classic
* 1988 PowerPoint 2.0 for Mac OS classic
* 1992 PowerPoint 3.0 for Mac OS classic
* 1994 PowerPoint 4.0 for Mac OS classic
* 1998 PowerPoint 98 (8.0) for Mac OS classic (Office
1998 for Mac)
* 2000 PowerPoint 2001 (9.0) for Mac OS X (Office 2001
for Mac)
* 2002 PowerPoint v. X (10.0) for Mac OS X (Office:Mac
v. X)
* 2004 PowerPoint 2004 (11.0) for Mac OS X Office:Mac
2004
* 2008 PowerPoint 2008 (12.0) for Mac OS X Microsoft
Office 2008 for Mac
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Robert
Gaskins Inventor of PowerPoint's website. - invented PowerPoint
between 1984-1987
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