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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.
Can some people list some uses for this?
1. To collaboratively edit a PowerPoint on desktop.
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'
Don't use it. People's eyes glaze over as soon as they see the first slide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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.
In the wake of this earth-shattering announcement, here is what thousands of media professionals are thinking as they stare at a bottle of pills and a litre of vodka, and quietly contemplate the fact that they will now have to deal in real time with every jackass in their organization who believes a PhD in some totally unrelated field, a nepotistically-acquired position in the hierarchy, their raw intelligence (as defined by the Dunning Kruger Effect), or their knowledge of "how we did things with Word Perfect", make them qualified to completely rewrite the rewrite of the rewrite of the edit of the presentation they just spent all weekend on (because it had to be done and dusted "the day before yesterday"):
"Only one title is suitable for this feature. It MUST bear the title, 'Corporate Clusterfuck'."
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
SLIDE 1: "Uses for Powerpoint Collaboration"
...much needless content...
SLIDE 2: "Agenda: What Is Collaboration - What Is Powerpoint Collaboration - How Powerpoint Collaboration Helps Megacorp - How to Use Powerpoint Collaboration - Powerpoint Collaboration Policy - Reporting Powerpoint Collaboration Misuse - Conclusion"
SLIDE 3: Pirated graphic of unrealistically fit and happy office people high-fiving. "What Is Collaboration"
SLIDES 4-50:
SLIDE 51: Pirated graphic of business man stupidly raising his hand like a fucking second grader. "Any Questions?"