Anti-PowerPoint Party Formed In Switzerland

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday July 5, 2011 @05:09AM from the decide-on-the-slide dept.

angry tapir writes "Many people dislike sitting through a meeting being driven with presentation software. Microsoft's PowerPoint is perhaps the best known and most hated of the slide presentation programs out there, but few would take a political stand over it. However, that's exactly what Switzerland's Anti-PowerPoint Party (APPP) seeks to do. From the article: 'According to the APPP, the use of presentation software costs the Swiss economy 2.1 billion Swiss francs (US$2.5 billion) annually, while across the whole of Europe, presentation software causes an economic loss of €110 billion (US$160 billion). APPP bases its calculations on unverified assumptions about the number of employees attending presentations each week, and supposes that 85 percent of those employees see no purpose in the presentations.'"

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Re:Candidate? by Registered+Coward+v2 · 2011-07-05 05:15 · Score: 4, Funny

No, Stalin; because nobody can make bullet points like him.

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This is a little complex by thePowerOfGrayskull · 2011-07-05 05:21 · Score: 3, Funny

Maybe if they could put this into a PowerPoint presentation and make it a little easier to digest? Some pie chart graphics would really clarify things, I feel.