How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M

Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by peter303 on Friday June 10, 2016 @12:27PM (#11877553)

Dante created a new circle of Hell for PowerPoint

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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by Exras on Friday June 10, 2016 @06:39PM (#11880696)

Inferno or not, PowerPoint is a special product, for you can buy hardware to control it.

An image search on PowerPoint remote will fill the screen with different devices.

What other windows app has that same kind of hardware support?

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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by jboles on Friday June 10, 2016 @10:39PM (#11881734)

Solitaire/Minesweeper. One of the original purposes of including them with Windows was to familiarise users with mouse techniques.

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