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Re:Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016) by yitianjian on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:11AM (#31919612)
Not sure if Powerpoint was the standard in my circles - hearing a talk being called a Keynote was definitely more common, but maybe this is just a tech/science bias.
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Re:Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016) by mtmail on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:30AM (#31919851)
A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynote is a type of public speech, especially at conference. That's unrelated to presentation tools in this case.
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Re:Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016) by conductr on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:09PM (#31925743)
> unrelated to presentation tools in this case.

Not entirely

https://www.apple.com/keynote/

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Re:Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016) by yitianjian on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @11:41AM (#31921731)
Today I learned, nice
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Re:Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016) by tssva on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:30AM (#31919854)
Keynote the app was named after the term keynote referring to a speech not the other way around.
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Re:Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016) by liotier on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:26AM (#31919794)
In French corporate circles for 25 years, I have only seen presentations with Powerpoint or the occasional full-screen PDF. Apple is common among freelancers, but company people get the obligatory Windows laptop.
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