Microsoft PowerPoint, every mention

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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft PowerPoint comes up

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▶ 1:50:47 Ben Gilbert Come over to the office and I'll sit you down and give you the entire whiteboard and PowerPoint on how the Costco business model works.

▶ 4:25 Ben Gilbert Listeners should know, we didn't ask for this in any way, but at 10 p.m. last night, you sent us a PowerPoint deck and said, I, I made you some slides.
▶ 4:58 Steve Ballmer And their PowerPoint.
▶ 5:07 David Rosenthal I think the word cheerleader is actually in the PowerPoint deck, though.
▶ 18:24 Steve Ballmer One of the things my little PowerPoint here says is luck is important in the creation of great companies.
▶ 45:05 Steve Ballmer When we created Office, that bill really drove, drove that in a great, I mean, we're selling Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and then we put these things together, and people would complain, and we didn't always sell Office because people say,…
▶ 2:42:08 Steve Ballmer 35 PowerPoints, 40 PowerPoints, easily.

▶ 1:30:31 David Rosenthal For his job, you know, to be promoted to general counsel, his PowerPoint presentation to the board is just one slide that has one sentence on it.
▶ 1:35:42 Ben Gilbert The other way into Now Assist so it can automatically generate office files like PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets directly from assets and knowledge in the ServiceNow platform.
▶ 3:18:33 Ben Gilbert Hmm, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
▶ 3:58:09 Ben Gilbert What users want is we have a good version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint that people can run on their iPads, and we've decided not to ship it to try and advantage Surface and other Windows eight devices.

▶ 2:32:57 Ben Gilbert Now, they haven't acquired PowerPoint yet, or Forethought, as we talked about eight years ago on Acquired.
▶ 2:33:04 Ben Gilbert So there's no PowerPoint.
▶ 2:33:38 Ben Gilbert By 1988 or 89, it was Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
▶ 2:34:23 David Rosenthal With a graphical user interface like Windows and true multitasking, you can get copy paste from like Excel into PowerPoint.
▶ 4:00:44 Ben Gilbert And I worked on a shared experiences team that would check things in that would be a dependency that Word, Excel, PowerPoint, all of them took on the shared code.
▶ 4:22:02 David Rosenthal Forethought was the company that made PowerPoint.

▶ 3:13:34 David Senra And they're like, your PowerPoint presentation.
▶ 3:13:36 David Rosenthal Have you ever made a PowerPoint presentation in your life?
▶ 3:13:41 David Senra Why would I make a PowerPoint presentation?
▶ 3:15:30 David Senra She's like, uh, I go, well, first of all, did she do a PowerPoint?
▶ 3:15:33 David Senra She goes, yes, everybody did a PowerPoint.
▶ 3:15:44 David Rosenthal Like, it was like, you would have had a PowerPoint.
▶ 3:16:41 David Senra I don't even want to sit through a PowerPoint.
▶ 3:16:43 David Rosenthal Nobody wants to sit through a PowerPoint.

▶ 16:34 David Rosenthal And Forethought were the makers of a little Mac application that then became a Windows application called PowerPoint.

▶ 49:43 Ben Gilbert So of course they start all these meetings with the six pagers and the PR FAQs where we're not doing PowerPoint slides.

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