The News Review:
- Microsoft gives neNote a bird’s-eye view
- Even Microsoft Executive Can’t Handle PowerPoint [Confessions]
- * Microsoft to invest strongly in cloud computing
- Embracing diversity
Microsoft gives neNote a bird’s-eye view
CNET News
(It also requires Windows Vista and uses Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation graphics technology). But I wouldn’t be surprised to see the bird’s-eye metaphor used more and more by Microsoft. Indeed Microsoft also has a presentation tool the one. html” >Stephen Elop is using in his speech today that also lets a presenter easily zoom in and out of images as opposed to going from one PowerPoint slide to the next. thers in the industry have also found that a good view for one type of content can be used broadly. Apple for example used Cover Flow as a means of flipping through albums in iTunes but later found uses for it for browsing documents in the Finder and as of this week for navigating through Web sites in Safari. Microsoft also has a similar tool for PowerPoint.
Even Microsoft Executive Can’t Handle PowerPoint [Confessions]
Examiner.com
She could start with herself! Here’s Passman in 2006 talking about her ineptness with Microsoft PowerPoint a cornerstone of Microsoft’s $12. 5 billion-a-year ffice franchise: don’t know if any of you have ever listened to a speech by someone from Microsoft but my colleagues love to use PowerPoint slides to illustrate.
* Microsoft to invest strongly in cloud computing
guardian.co.uk
He argued that Microsoft’s cloud-computing applications havebeen endorsed by major clients including Nokia and Coca-Cola andthat the company’s Windows Azure operating system for onlineapplications was endorsed by other developers at a conference inctober 2008. “We are absolutely leading at this point” he said. Microsoft has developed browser versions of programs such asWord Excel and PowerPoint within its ffice product which is inprivate testing Elop said. He declined to say when the online version of ffice would bereleased to the public. Elop acknowledged there had been “a lot of criticism” of theWindows Vista operating system but said Microsoft had made “verymajor architectural changes” in such areas as security andperformance. The improvements to Vista will also enhance the performance ofthe to-be-launched Windows 7 operation system that will succeedit he said. “We are cautiously optimistic about how Windows 7 will land”he said.
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Embracing diversity
Marion Star
The projects included Microsoft PowerPoint presentations of famous black Americans completed in honor of Black History Month. “The historical contributions that African-Americans have made have been phenomenal” said Dyer who said she believes it’s important for the students to have an awareness of the contributions that all Americans including African-Americans have made. Marion City Schools is a regular supporter of Marion’s Black History Month events and continues to work with Shawn Jackson a former Marion City Schools teacher and staff member who now serves as The hio State University at Marion’s diversity coordinator. Students at the district’s six elementary schools put up displays around the school and completed other projects such as the PowerPoint presentations. “At Marion City Schools we value diversity” said district spokeswoman Becky Gilliam.