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Can Google Kill PowerPoint?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fight-it-out-with-pretty-colors dept.

theodp writes "Far from a PowerPoint killer, Slate's Paul Boutin finds Google's online presentation tool Preso more like a PowerPoint commercial — a half-baked app that shows how powerful Microsoft's program really is. But if you have your druthers, Boutin suggests ditching both and opting for Apple's Keynote, which helped snag an Oscar for Al Gore and inspired this Dear-PPT-Letter. 'The first hurdle ... You can't use it on a plane. Google Preso only works if you've got a live, high-bandwidth Internet connection. You can save the finished product to an HTML presentation on your laptop, but you can't edit the saved version or upload it back. The Splunkers would need to finalize their presos early in the morning in a rented conference room, where both Wi-Fi and Verizon wireless cards have been known to fail. That would kill the presentation.'"

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  1. Oh yeah by 427_ci_505 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google is going to "fucking kill powerpoint."

    1. Re:Oh yeah by somersault · · Score: 2, Funny

      Whoah.. you could totally be a Maddox killar!

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      which is totally what she said
  2. Summary by Nova+Express · · Score: 5, Funny
    Powerpoint

    Strengths

    • Standard
    • Multiplatform
    • Powerful
    Weaknesses
    • Microsoft=Evil
    • Somewhat Expensive
    Preso

    Strengths

    • Free
    • Works OK
    • Google=Good
    Weaknesses

    • Sucks
    • Only Online
    • No Animation ,li>No Image Tools
    • Can't Bet Company On It
    Keynote

    Strengths

    • Better than PowerPoint
    • Lickable
    • Apple=Good
    • Finer Control
    • Create LOL Cats in Record Time
    Weaknesses

    • None. That Shalt Not Question the One and Holy Jobs

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    1. Re:Summary by GaryPatterson · · Score: 4, Funny

      Keynote ... Create LOL Cats in Record Time

      And on reflective black glass surfaces! Ooh!

      They're in ur presentation, eating ur clipartz!

      I think I need a shower now. (shudder)

  3. Re:Just kill presentation software by ceoyoyo · · Score: 2, Funny

    No no, we should just ban bullets. Rewrite the software so it doesn't support them anymore.

    Uh, best to ban text too, just in case. Or at least text boxes. Maybe leave the non-text box, single line option for labels and things.

  4. Re:Just kill presentation software by Bill_the_Engineer · · Score: 5, Funny

    No no, we should just ban bullets

    Bullets don't kill presentations, people kill presentations...

    Someone had to say it... I still don't know why it had to be me...

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  5. Re:Just kill presentation software by fbjon · · Score: 2, Funny

    One bullet hole per bullet point ought to do the trick.

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