The News Review:
- PowerPoint Users Learn to Share
- New Zero-Day PowerPoint Attack Under Way
- Microsoft’s PowerPoint Assailed
- PowerPoint Zero-Day Attack May Be Case of Corporate Espionage
- Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentatio…
- Perfect PowerPoint Presentations
- … One Bullet Point at a Time; Pupils Who Can’t Even Spell…
PowerPoint Users Learn to Share
PC World – Jun 24, 2002
Called Presence-AR Adapter for Microsoft PowerPoint the product is sold as an add-on for Microsoft’s presentation software and allows multiple users to simultaneously. The presentation can be stored on several PCs across a network with the goal of providing faster access to the files being viewed says Derek Ruths chief technology officer of Advanced Reality based in Houston Texas. The software adds a button to the PowerPoint interface that allows a “host user” to invite participants to view a presentation online. As participants sign on to the session the presentation file is sent out over the Internet or a private network to other users in the group.
New Zero-Day PowerPoint Attack Under Way
InformationWeek – Jul 13, 2006
The similarities led Cole to believe that the two attacks could be the work of the same group. “That’s as much as we could say though at this point. Unlike the Excel bug the PowerPoint flaw — confirmed only in PowerPoint 2003 thus far — remains open to attack. Microsoft’s Office suite has faced a number of attacks and owned up to numerous vulnerabilities in the last two months.
Microsoft’s PowerPoint Assailed
Motley Fool – Dec 19, 2003
Indeed it’s hard to imagine many important meetings proceeding without some kind of PowerPoint presentation on the agenda. One estimate from a few years ago had PowerPoint installed on 250 million computers and used in 30 million presentations per day. Yet all is not entirely hunky-dory in the PowerPoint world. Critics abound asserting that: The software forces users to boil everything down into bullet points. The bullet format can make it hard to convey complex information and guide people through a critical thinking process to solid conclusions… In particular the popular PowerPoint templates (ready-made designs) usually weaken verbal and spatial reasoning and almost always corrupt statistical analysis. Microsoft has been accused of a lot of things in the past such as creating an operating system monopoly. But changing (and worsening) the way we think is likely a new one to many. What do you think? Chime in on our.
PowerPoint Zero-Day Attack May Be Case of Corporate Espionage
FOXNews – Jul 24, 2006
“Once this type of attack is out it’s very unusual for it to be limited to just one company. I think it’s safe to assume that it’s ongoing especially since there is no patch for this vulnerability” Huger added. Microsoft plans to issue a patch on August 8 for users of Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 and Microsoft PowerPoint 2003. In the meantime anti-virus experts are urging Microsoft Office users to be on the lookout for suspicious attachments even those that appear to come from colleagues internally. The PowerPoint exploit arrives from a Gmail address with a subject line in Chinese characters. Internet security vendor Sophos said the rigged PowerPoint presentation which includes 18 slides contains “humorous” philosophy about love between men and women.
Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentatio…
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – Mar 2, 2005
With Beyond Bullet Points youll take your presentation skills to the next levellearning innovative ways to design and deliver your message. Organized into five sectionsDistill Your Ideas Structure Your Story Visualize Your Message Create a Conversation and Maintain Engagementthe book uses clear concise language and just the right visuals to help you.
Perfect PowerPoint Presentations
PC World – Apr 25, 2001
PowerPoint will open converting all text formatted as Heading1 into individual slides and making other heading styles indented lists within the slides. Now select Format Apply Design (in PowerPoint 97) or Format Apply Design Template (in PowerPoint 2000). In the resulting dialog box choose a template design that suits your presentation. Preview designs in the preview window and click Apply when you find one you like.
… One Bullet Point at a Time; Pupils Who Can’t Even Spell…
New York Times – May 31, 2001
”They’ll say ‘Hi my name is Julie and I like to eat pizza. ‘ And there is their picture on the screen behind them like on a TV monitor. They are the stars of PowerPoint. ” According to figures from Microsoft the real star of the classroom may be PowerPoint itself: 69 percent of teachers who use Microsoft software use PowerPoint in their classrooms an application second in popularity only to the workhorse of word processing Microsoft Word. The software is not only a teaching aid used by instructors as a substitute for a chalkboard. It has become a tool for students to use as well. Suddenly magic markers and construction paper seem so Old Economy.