The News Review:
- Business school makes PowerPoint a prerequisite
- MS offers Mac RDC 2.0 beta PowerPoint converter
- WordPerfect ffice Small Business Edition 12
Business school makes PowerPoint a prerequisite
Seattle Times – Jul 31, 2007
It could be called corporate America’s final surrender to a technology that in the name of promoting the flow of information often gums it up by encouraging bureaucratic jargon and making colorful but useless graphics just a little too easy to produce. Nonetheless PowerPoint has become the lingua franca of business meetings worldwide. Its 500 million copies are used (or misused) in 30 million presentations per day Microsoft has estimated. Technology isn’t a hurdle for most University of Chicago applicants but “other schools might have to think about that” said Nicole Chestang chief client officer for the Graduate Management Admission Council a worldwide group of management programs that oversees the GMAT entrance exam. It’s also business schools that traditionally have the most boring essays focusing on workplace accomplishments rather than passions or unusual talents but which are increasingly interested in creativity. Michael Avidan a second-year Chicago MBA student predicts some applicants will be turned off by the requirement but says it’s an opportunity for clever students whose test scores and other application materials might not stand out to shine. Copyright © 2007 The Seattle Times CompanyMore Business & Technology headlines.
MS offers Mac RDC 2.0 beta PowerPoint converter
Macworld – Jul 31, 2007
It?s being offered as a public beta version. The Mac BU also announced Tuesday the release of a standalone ffice pen XML file format converter that supports World (. docx) and PowerPoint (.
WordPerfect ffice Small Business Edition 12
ZDNet Asia – Jul 31, 2007
Quattro Pro offers all the data-organizing features you’ll find in Excel although some tools are named differently. And Corel Presentations’ dozens of wizards make it easy to create slide shows although it has problems displaying Microsoft PowerPoint files accurately. We wish that Corel would provide more than a 90-day free trial of Norton Internet Security 2005; if you buy Norton separately at retail you’ll get a one-year subscription. Still Corel’s suite costs $100 less than. If you like Corel’s programs but don’t need Mail Paint Shop Pro or Norton Security opt for the $299.