PowerPoint (Microsoft)

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1987
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PowerPoint, renamed after Robert Gaskins' development of Presenter (1984) at Forethought Inc., is a slide show presentation application launched in 1987 for the Apple Macintosh and later acquired by Microsoft.

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Version history for Windows:

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 (version 8.0; Office 97)
1999 PowerPoint 2000 (version 9.0; Office 2000)
2001 PowerPoint 2002 (version 10; Office XP)
2003 Office PowerPoint 2003 (version 11; Office 2003)
2007 Office PowerPoint 2007 (version 12; Office 2007)
2010 PowerPoint 2010 (version 14; Office 2010)
2013 PowerPoint 2013 (version 15; Office 2013)

Version history for Mac OS:

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 classic (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
2010 PowerPoint 2011 (14.0) for Mac OS X Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac

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Magnus Lindstrøm