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Microsoft Brings Collaborative Editing To PowerPoint On Desktop (venturebeat.com)
Microsoft today said that it has enhanced certain versions of its PowerPoint presentation-building program with real-time collaborative editing. VentureBeat adds: This feature came to Word on desktop last year. And before that it was available through Office Online. Microsoft said last year that real-time coauthoring would come to all of its desktop apps, and now Microsoft is executing on that commitment. Just like in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, this feature lets you "see what others are typing as it happens on a given slide," Microsoft Office corporate vice president Kirk Koenigsbauer wrote in a blog post. The feature is live now in PowerPoint on Windows for people who subscribe to Office 365 and belong to the Office Insider program. In addition, it's now available to everyone in PowerPoint Mobile on Windows tablets, Koenigsbauer wrote.
Powerpoint users can get into a real time edit war, deadlock, than starve while waiting.
Can I dream?
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Not understanding the beauty of this feature I see. Pure genius.
See, what do middle managers enjoy doing most when they aren't calling needless meetings all day?
That's right, it is making useless PowerPoint presentations that are devoid of actual intellectual content!
Now, what do you suppose happens when all the middle managers in a midsize company are able to make and redact edits to PowerPoint documents in real time?
Increased productivity!
Why?
Instead of calling endless bullshit meetings, the middle management team is bogged down in quorum on exactly what buzzwords to use, the cost benefit dynamics of using comic sans vs papyrus, or which set of bland clipart to use. In extended testing, the software team who created this breakthrough were able to keep mid management and even some clevel management contained for days at a time. Naturally, the managers felt the higher quality (ahem) if the presentation they made was responsible for the productivity increase, but the positive correlation between fewer meetings and more task time on productivity is very telling.