93-597: Accessories The Surface Neo is an unreleased dual-touchscreen 2-in-1 PC that was unveiled by Microsoft on October 2, 2019. Slated to be part of the Microsoft Surface family of devices, the Surface Neo was designed to be used in various "postures" for different use cases and multitasking scenarios involving its screens, and feature Windows 10X —a variant of Windows 10 designed exclusively for dual-screen devices. However, as of December 2023, over four years after
186-403: A sandbox environment for security reasons, and to control power consumption (with apps automatically paused after a period of inactivity). The OS was designed to respond to various "postures", such as spanning an application across both screens like a book, using separate applications on the two screens, standing up with a wireless external keyboard ("portable all-in-one"), or like a laptop—with
279-481: A universal app . In this version of PowerPoint users can create and edit new presentations, present, and share their PowerPoint documents. PowerPoint for the web is a free lightweight version of Microsoft PowerPoint available as part of Office on the web, which also includes web versions of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. PowerPoint for the web does not support inserting or editing charts, equations, or audio or video stored on your PC, but they are all displayed in
372-471: A "deck", composed of paper copies of the slides. In some cases, decks were simply distributed to individuals, without even a walk-through or discussion. ... Other variations in the form included sending the PowerPoint file electronically to another site and talking through the slides over an audio or video channel (e.g., telephone or video conference) as both parties viewed the slides. ... Another common variation
465-566: A 32 watt power supply was included, which was upgraded with the Surface 2 to feature a larger indicator light to show the Surface was charging. The Surface Pro and Pro 2 feature a 48 watt power supply with a USB (power only) port on the charging brick. As with the Surface 2's power supply, the Pro 2's power supply features a larger indicator light. Microsoft redesigned the power supply for the Surface Pro 3 with
558-737: A PowerPoint version for MS-DOS. After three years, PowerPoint sales were disappointing. Jeff Raikes, who had bought PowerPoint for Microsoft, later recalled: "By 1990, it looked like it wasn't a very smart idea [for Microsoft to have acquired PowerPoint], because not very many people were using PowerPoint." This began to change when the first version for Windows, PowerPoint 2.0, brought sales up to about 200,000 copies in 1990 and to about 375,000 copies in 1991, with Windows units outselling Macintosh. PowerPoint sold about 1 million copies in 1992, of which about 80 percent were for Windows and about 20 percent for Macintosh, and in 1992 PowerPoint's market share of worldwide presentation graphics software sales
651-503: A component of the Microsoft Office suite, first offered in 1989 for Macintosh and in 1990 for Windows , which bundled several Microsoft apps. Beginning with PowerPoint 4.0 (1994), PowerPoint was integrated into Microsoft Office development, and adopted shared common components and a converged user interface. PowerPoint's market share was very small at first, prior to introducing a version for Microsoft Windows, but grew rapidly with
744-643: A desktop computer (or any other hardware not certified by Miracast before public sale) or on any device sold by a manufacturer who does not participate in the Miracast hardware standard. This includes all Apple laptops and devices, all Google Chromebooks, and Android devices starting with Android 8. However, individual handset manufacturers using Android can still certify a device to work with Miracast, such as Samsung's Galaxy S line. To maintain HDCP support, devices that do not have current software driver updates will not connect to
837-707: A firmware update will be released in early-2017 for the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 that will allow the on-screen functions to work with those devices. Surface Dial, like the Surface Pen , utilize non-rechargeable batteries, though the Dial requires the two included AAA alkaline batteries, and the Surface Pen requires a single AAAA battery. Surface Dial requires the Windows 10 "Anniversary Update" in order to function. The Dial
930-577: A foldable, I do think these are realities to the future of products being made, no doubt. Or a rollable for that matter, a rollable screen. It’s maybe not something I’ve decided on, but for sure how do we serve the form factor that’s going to adapt to the person I think is the way to think about it." List of Microsoft Surface accessories Accessories The Microsoft Surface touchscreen Windows computers and interactive whiteboards designed and developed by Microsoft . Since its release in 2012, there have been various Surface accessories over
1023-529: A great idea." I came back to see Bill. I said, "Bill, I think we really ought to do this;" and Bill said, "No, no, no, no, no, that's just a feature of Microsoft Word, just put it into Word." ... And I kept saying, "Bill, no, it's not just a feature of Microsoft Word, it's a whole genre of how people do these presentations." And, to his credit, he listened to me and ultimately allowed me to go forward and ... buy this company in Silicon Valley called Forethought, for
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#17328557418121116-654: A letter to Dave Winer withdrawing its earlier letter of intent to acquire his company, and in mid-May 1987 Microsoft sent a letter of intent to acquire Forethought. As requested in that letter of intent, Robert Gaskins from Forethought went to Redmond for a one-on-one meeting with Bill Gates in early June 1987, and by the end of July an agreement was concluded for an acquisition. The New York Times reported: ... July 30, 1987— The Microsoft Corporation announced its first significant software acquisition today, paying $ 14 million [$ 37.5 million in present-day terms ] for Forethought Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif. Forethought makes
1209-460: A new "fin" connector and a 36 watt rating. The Surface 3 launched with another redesigned power supply using a micro-USB connector and having a 13 watt rating. Two Ethernet adapters have been released to work with the Surface Pro line including the Ethernet Adapter for USB 2.0 with a speed rating of 100 Mbit/s and a Surface Ethernet Adapter for USB 3.0 with a speed of 1 Gbit/s. For
1302-521: A new application that would be especially suited to the new graphical personal computers, such as the Apple Macintosh and later Microsoft Windows . Gaskins produced his initial description of PowerPoint about a month later (August 14, 1984) in the form of a 2-page document titled "Presentation Graphics for Overhead Projection." By October 1984, Gaskins had selected Dennis Austin to be the developer for PowerPoint. Gaskins and Austin worked together on
1395-726: A new form of communication, with strong reactions including advice that it should be used less, differently, or better. The first PowerPoint version (Macintosh 1987) was used to produce overhead transparencies, the second (Macintosh 1988, Windows 1990) could also produce color 35 mm slides. The third version (Windows and Macintosh 1992) introduced video output of virtual slideshows to digital projectors, which would over time replace physical transparencies and slides. A dozen major versions since then have added additional features and modes of operation and have made PowerPoint available beyond Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows, adding versions for iOS , Android , and web access. PowerPoint
1488-486: A pair of dual-touchscreen devices—the Android -based Surface Duo smartphone , and the Surface Neo. Codenamed " Santorini ", head of Windows Client Experiences Joe Belfiore explained that "we saw an opportunity both at Microsoft and with our partners to fill in some of the gaps in [laptop and tablet] experiences and offer something new". Microsoft unveiled an accompanying operating system known as Windows 10X , and stated that
1581-426: A powerful new color laptop and feeding a professional auditorium video projector . By about 2003, ten years later, digital projection had become the dominant mode of use, replacing transparencies and 35mm slides and their projectors. As a result, the meaning of "PowerPoint presentation" narrowed to mean specifically digital projection: ... in the business lexicon, "PowerPoint presentation" had come to refer to
1674-399: A presentation made using a PowerPoint slideshow projected from a computer. Although the PowerPoint software had been used to generate transparencies for over a decade, this usage was not typically encompassed by a common understanding of the term. In contemporary operation, PowerPoint is used to create a file (called a "presentation" or "deck") containing a sequence of pages (called "slides" in
1767-591: A program called PowerPoint that allows users of Apple Macintosh computers to make overhead transparencies or flip charts. ... [T]he acquisition of Forethought is the first significant one for Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash. Forethought would remain in Sunnyvale, giving Microsoft a Silicon Valley presence. The unit will be headed by Robert Gaskins, Forethought's vice president of product development. Microsoft's president Jon Shirley offered his company's motivation for
1860-409: A program specifically to make overhead presentations was already being developed by Forethought, Inc., and that it was nearly completed. Raikes and others visited Forethought on February 6, 1987, for a confidential demonstration. Raikes later recounted his reaction to seeing PowerPoint and his report about it to Bill Gates , who was initially skeptical: I thought, "software to do overheads—that's
1953-647: A rate of about 4 million copies annually, for worldwide market share of 85 percent. The increase in business use has been attributed to " network effects ", whereby additional users of PowerPoint in a company or an industry increased its salience and value to other users. Not everyone immediately approved of the greater use of PowerPoint for presentations, even in business. CEOs who very early were reported to discourage or ban PowerPoint presentations at internal business meetings included Lou Gerstner (at IBM, in 1993), Scott McNealy (at Sun Microsystems, in 1996), and Steve Jobs (at Apple, in 1997). But even so, Rich Gold,
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#17328557418122046-450: A second developer to join the project, Thomas Rudkin. Gaskins prepared two final product specification marketing documents in June 1986; these described a product for both Macintosh and Windows. At about the same time, Austin, Rudkin, and Gaskins produced a second and final major design specification document, this time showing a Macintosh look. Throughout this development period, the product
2139-537: A selection of ports to connect external displays. As of April 2023, while the only two discontinued Docks are for Surface Pro 1-3 and Surface 3, the latest model is the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock. The initial design of the Surface Dock had a diagonal tablet stand permanently set at 60 degrees for the device to rest in while two arms slid together to secure the device and plug into all of the tablet ports. Of note,
2232-473: A set of applications versus a single product. ... Please assume that we stay ahead in integrating our family together in evaluating our future strategies—the product teams WILL deliver on this. ... I believe that we should position the "OFFICE" as our most important application. The move from bundling separate products to integrated development began with PowerPoint 4.0, developed in 1993–1994 under new management from Redmond. The PowerPoint group in Silicon Valley
2325-458: A software company named Forethought, Inc. It was released on April 20, 1987, initially for Macintosh computers only. Microsoft acquired PowerPoint for about $ 14 million three months after it appeared. This was Microsoft's first significant acquisition, and Microsoft set up a new business unit for PowerPoint in Silicon Valley where Forethought had been located. PowerPoint became
2418-499: A touchpad with glass beads replacing the felt-like material used in previous generations. When the Surface 3 was announced, a smaller version, the Surface 3 Type Cover was released. Both Surface 3 and Pro 3 Type Covers have a loop to house the Surface Pen . On October 6, 2015, Microsoft updated the Surface Pro Type Cover with a new teal color in addition to the existing black, red, blue, and bright blue colors. Also introduced
2511-490: Is 40W). Microsoft created and released the Wireless Display Adapter accessory in 2014 along with Surface 3 and Surface Pro 3 that uses Miracast (Wi-Fi Direct) to display an HDMI-quality Wireless Video connection from a Surface device. It also works any device that supports Miracast, including laptops that were formerly certified with Intel's WiDi technology. The Wireless Display Adapter cannot transmit video from
2604-740: Is compatible with Surface 3 and the Surface Pro 3 . This docking accessory connects to the proprietary 40-pin side port which got the new name – Surface Connect . Unlike the prior docks, the Surface Dock offered two Mini-DisplayPort outputs, but had a limit of SD/HD/2K video at 60Hz or 4K video at 30Hz, regardless of the screens used. Surface Dock compatibility includes all Pro devices from Surface Pro 3 up to and including Surface Pro 9. It also includes Surface Book 1 & 2, and all initial Surface Laptops, Surface Go, and Surface Laptop Go devices. A Microsoft Garage incubator team designed ergonomic VESA-mounted portrait docking stations as part of
2697-495: Is compatible with the Surface Pro 4 , Surface Studio , Surface Pro (2017) , and Surface Book 2 . On October 2, 2018, Microsoft unveiled Bluetooth -compatible Surface Headphones alongside the Surface Pro 6 , Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Studio 2 . The noise-cancelling Bluetooth headphones feature Cortana integration and four beam-forming microphones. On August 15, 2020, Microsoft introduced Surface Headphones 2, compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11 Home/Pro with
2790-502: Is included with Windows Mobile 5.0 . It is a presentation program capable of reading and editing Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, although authoring abilities are limited to adding notes, editing text, and rearranging slides. It can't create new presentations. Versions of PowerPoint Mobile for Windows Phone 7 can also watch presentation broadcasts streamed from the Internet. In 2015, Microsoft released PowerPoint Mobile for Windows 10 as
2883-685: Is still carried out in Silicon Valley as of 2017 . In 2010, Jeff Raikes, who had most recently been President of the Business Division of Microsoft (including responsibility for Office), observed: "of course, today we know that PowerPoint is oftentimes the number two—or in some cases even the number one—most-used tool" among the applications in Office. PowerPoint's initial sales were about 40,000 copies sold in 1987 (nine months), about 85,000 copies in 1988, and about 100,000 copies in 1989, all for Macintosh. PowerPoint's market share in its first three years
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2976-412: Is to present it as a slide show using a portable computer, where the presentation file is stored on the computer or available from a network, and the computer's screen shows a "presenter view" with current slide, next slide, speaker's notes for the current slide, and other information. Video is sent from the computer to one or more external digital projectors or monitors, showing only the current slide to
3069-476: The MIT Sloan School of Management : The standard form of such presentations involves a single person standing before a group of people, talking and using the PowerPoint slideshow to project visual aids onto a screen. ... In practice, however, presentations are not always delivered in this mode. In our studies, we often found that the presenter sat at a table with a small group of people and walked them through
3162-472: The Surface Pro 3 and newer devices use that of N-trig , which has since been acquired by Microsoft. The Surface Pen was specifically designed to minimize latency (lag time), eliminate parallax issues, which occur when the point where the tip touches the screen does not match up with the spot where the ink actually appears on the device, and provide a more natural-feeling 'pen-on-paper' user experience. The Surface also features palm rejection which allows
3255-480: The Applications Division. Microsoft assigned an internal group to write a specification and plan for a new presentation product. They contemplated an acquisition to speed up development, and in early 1987 Microsoft sent a letter of intent to acquire Dave Winer 's product called MORE , an outlining program that could print its outlines as bullet charts. During this preparatory activity Raikes discovered that
3348-657: The Company hackathon, released a YouTube demo video, open-source plans on GitHub, and made ready-to-use kits available on a web store. An update to the first brick Surface Dock, the Surface Dock 2 was released in 2021 and replaced the Mini-DP video outputs with USB-C DP-Alt Mode outputs. Devices starting with the Surface Book 3, Surface Pro 7-9, Surface Pro X, Surface Laptop 3-5 and Surface Laptop Studio all have 4K at 60Hz support on up to two displays with Surface Dock 2. It also offered
3441-459: The Microsoft Surface. Microsoft launched a Surface HD Digital A/V Adapter which works with micro-HDMI to HDMI for the Surface and Surface 2, and a Surface VGA adapter which also works with Surface and Surface 2 going from the built-in micro-HDMI to VGA. For the Surface Pro series, a Display Port to HD A/V (HDMI) and a Display Port to VGA adapter was created. For the first generation Surface,
3534-537: The OS, as well as dual-screen devices from Microsoft and other OEM partners, would be released in late-2020. Microsoft did not provide any specific information on the specifications of the Surface Neo, except that all Windows 10X devices launching in 2020 would use Intel "Lakefield" processors. Prototypes of the Neo reportedly used an Intel Core i5-L16G7 processor with 8 GB of RAM, and had dual 9-inch 1440p displays. The Surface Neo
3627-546: The PowerPoint team there. Special guests were Robert Gaskins, Dennis Austin, and Thomas Rudkin, and the featured speaker was Jeff Raikes, all from PowerPoint 1.0 days, 20 years before. Since then major development of PowerPoint as part of Office has continued. New development techniques (shared across Office) for PowerPoint 2016 have made it possible to ship versions of PowerPoint 2016 for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and web access nearly simultaneously, and to release new features on an almost monthly schedule. PowerPoint development
3720-408: The Surface Dock for Surface 3 and Surface Pro 3 used a new 40-pin interconnect on the right arm of the dock to join the device to the docking station for charging and port replication use. The port featured in several generations of Surface Devices afterward. With the announcement of the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book , Microsoft revealed a new Surface Dock accessory in a brick form factor which
3813-858: The Surface Docks, the Travel Hub connects to Surface Devices with USB-C ports including the Surface Pro 7, Surface Book 2, Surface Go, Surface Laptop Go, Surface Laptop 3, and Surface Laptop Studio. The third brick Surface Dock was released in 2023, which introduced a new USB-C Upstream cable permanently attached to the dock to replace the 40-pin Surface Connect plug. This dock is compatible with select USB-C devices starting with Surface Pro 7-9, Surface Pro X, Surface Laptop 3-5, Surface Book 3, Surface Laptop Go 1-2, Surface Go 2-3, and Surface Laptop Studio. Not all of these devices actually offer Thunderbolt 4. Surface Laptop 5, Surface Pro 8-9 and Surface Laptop Studio are
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3906-554: The Surface Neo was announced, it is still unreleased, likely rendering it vaporware . The Surface Neo was expected to be launched in late-2020, alongside a range of other Windows 10X devices from third-party manufacturers. In May 2020, Microsoft postponed the release of Windows 10X-based dual-screen devices in favor of launching it with single-screen devices instead. This did not come to fruition, and Microsoft eventually cancelled Windows 10X outright in May 2021, with aspects of 10X repurposed for
3999-456: The Surface Pro 8 series and newer devices, a Surface Slim Pen Charging Cradle has been released for users to charge the slim pen without a Touch Keyboard attached. The charger uses USB-C at the base. The cradle charges a Slim Pen wirelessly with any USB-PD charging adapter that is capable of at least 5W. Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program , created by Robert Gaskins , Tom Rudkin, and Dennis Austin at
4092-494: The Surface Pro Signature Type Cover line to include burgundy, cobalt blue, and platinum with a release date of June 15, 2017. | Surface Pro 3 Surface Pro 4 Surface Pro (5th generation) Surface Pro 6 A Power Cover, introduced alongside the Surface Pro 2 , is a non back-lit Type Cover with a built-in battery to extend the Surface's battery life. It is compatible with the Surface Pro and later, due to
4185-599: The Surface including the Wedge Touch and Arc Touch mice. On July 10, 2018, Microsoft launched the Surface Mouse alongside the Surface Keyboard. It is compatible with any Bluetooth-enabled device. Most Surface tablets have an active pen that allows users to write directly onto the screen of the tablet. The Surface Pen for the Surface Pro and Surface Pro 2 use Wacom technology, while its successor released alongside
4278-687: The Wireless Display Adapter (even if Miracast is supported). With the introduction of the Surface Studio on 26 October 2016, Microsoft announced a new type of computing device called the Surface Dial. The promoted Surface Dial's purpose is to be used to control functions that artists might find useful, such as pen color or thickness. The Surface Dial is set with standard commands that can be used without being program or app specific. These commands include toggling sound volume, scrolling, zooming, brightness, and undo/redo. However, an app developer can customize
4371-523: The acquisition, Gaskins reported that all seven Forethought PowerPoint employees had stayed with Microsoft, and the Graphics Business Unit had hired 12 employees, many of whom did not want to move to Redmond. The GBU had moved to a new location on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California ; it was much larger than needed for 19 people, but Gaskins wrote that he and Microsoft wanted future capacity as
4464-718: The acquisition: " 'We made this deal primarily because of our belief in desktop presentations as a product category. ... Forethought was first to market with a product in this category. ' " Microsoft had 50% market share in Macintosh applications, and led in three categories; Raikes said that after the acquisition it would lead in five categories. (Forethought distributed the database Filemaker , which Microsoft wanted to continue marketing.) The company intended for Forethought to be its Silicon Valley base to develop and market future graphics software, so set up within its Applications Division, an independent "Graphics Business Unit" for PowerPoint,
4557-576: The additional pins required on the Surface spine. A Wireless Adapter for the keyboards, called the Wireless Adapter for Typing Covers, was also manufactured so that the keyboards can be used at a distance. It was introduced in September 2013 and has been discontinued on March 26, 2014. In 2018, Microsoft launched the Surface Keyboard alongside the Surface Mouse, which is compatible with any Bluetooth enabled device Two mice have also been released for
4650-414: The announcement and said "We see desktop presentation as potentially a bigger market for Apple than desktop publishing." PowerPoint 1.0 for Macintosh shipped from manufacturing on April 20, 1987, and the first production run of 10,000 units was sold out. By early 1987, Microsoft was starting to plan a new application to create presentations, an activity led by Jeff Raikes , who was head of marketing for
4743-402: The app) which usually have a consistent style (from template masters), and which may contain information imported from other apps or created in PowerPoint, including text, bullet lists, tables, charts, drawn shapes, images, audio clips, video clips, animations of elements, and animated transitions between slides, plus attached notes for each slide. After such a file is created, typical operation
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#17328557418124836-520: The audience, with sequencing controlled by the speaker at the computer. A smartphone remote control built in to PowerPoint for iOS (optionally controlled from Apple Watch) and for Android allows the presenter to control the show from elsewhere in the room. In addition to a computer slide show projected to a live audience by a speaker, PowerPoint can be used to deliver a presentation in a number of other ways: Some of these ways of using PowerPoint have been studied by JoAnne Yates and Wanda Orlikowski of
4929-466: The company grew in Silicon Valley. A new PowerPoint 2.0 for Macintosh, adding color 35 mm slides, shipped in May 1988, and again received good reviews. The same PowerPoint 2.0 product re-developed for Windows was shipped two years later, in mid-1990, at the same time as Windows 3.0 . Much of the color technology was the result of a joint development partnership with Genigraphics , the dominant presentation services company. PowerPoint 3.0, which
5022-532: The definition and design of the new product for nearly a year, and produced the first specification document dated August 21, 1985. This first design document showed a product as it would look in Microsoft Windows 1.0 , which at that time had not been released. Development from that spec was begun by Austin in November 1985, for Macintosh first. About six months later, on May 1, 1986, Gaskins and Austin chose
5115-584: The documentation was hastily revised. Funding to complete development of PowerPoint was assured in mid-January 1987, when a new Apple Computer venture capital fund, called Apple's Strategic Investment Group, selected PowerPoint to be its first investment. A month later, on February 22, 1987, Forethought announced PowerPoint at the Personal Computer Forum in Phoenix ; John Sculley , the CEO of Apple, appeared at
5208-502: The first Microsoft application group distant from the main Redmond location. The company hoped to hire employees uninterested in living in Washington state. All the PowerPoint people from Forethought joined Microsoft, and the new location was headed by Robert Gaskins, with Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin leading development. PowerPoint 1.0 for Macintosh was modified to indicate the new Microsoft ownership and continued to be sold. A year after
5301-428: The growth of Windows and of Office. Since the late 1990s, PowerPoint's worldwide market share of presentation software has been estimated at 95 percent. PowerPoint was originally designed to provide visuals for group presentations within business organizations, but has come to be widely used in other communication situations in business and beyond. The wider use led to the development of the PowerPoint presentation as
5394-440: The integrated Microsoft Office product, its development remained in Silicon Valley. Succeeding versions of PowerPoint introduced important changes, particularly version 12.0 (2007) which had a very different shared Office " ribbon " user interface, and a new shared Office XML-based file format . This marked the 20th anniversary of PowerPoint, and Microsoft held an event to commemorate that anniversary at its Silicon Valley Campus for
5487-465: The largest multinationals." Business people had for a long time made presentations for sales calls and for internal company communications, and PowerPoint produced the same formats in the same style and for the same purposes. PowerPoint use in business grew over its first five years (1987–1992) to sales of about 1 million copies annually, for worldwide market share of 63 percent. Over the following five years (1992–1997) PowerPoint sales accelerated, to
5580-401: The late 1990s, PowerPoint's market share of total world presentation software has been estimated at 95 percent by both industry and academic sources. The earliest version of PowerPoint (1987 for Macintosh) could be used to print black and white pages to be photocopied onto sheets of transparent film for projection from overhead projectors , and to print speaker's notes and audience handouts;
5673-537: The latest applications in Office: Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, and Access 2.0. The integration is so good, you'll have to look twice to make sure you're running PowerPoint and not Word or Excel." Office integration was further underscored in the following version, PowerPoint 95, which was given the version number PowerPoint 7.0 (skipping 5.0 and 6.0) so that all the components of Office would share the same major version number. Although PowerPoint by this point had become part of
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#17328557418125766-433: The latest updates. It's also compatible with Bluetooth 4.1/4.2/5.0 , IOS 12 or 13 , Android 9 or 10 . Microsoft released wireless earbuds in 2019 that feature a "dish-looking apparatus" on the outside for touch interactions. The earbuds can also live transcribe a PowerPoint presentation from a connected computer. Like the aforementioned headphones, these are compatible to Bluetooth. There are many other accessories for
5859-492: The lower screen dedicated to a virtual keyboard or partially covered by a physical keyboard accessory. In both cases, the portion of the lower screen not used by the keyboard would contain the "Wonder Bar" (comparable to the "touch bar" of MacBook Pro laptops of the era), which could be used for functions such as an emoji picker, note taking, or video. It could also be used like a laptop touchpad . Vice President of Experiences and Devices Joe Belfiore stated that Windows 10X
5952-411: The mainstream Windows 11 . Its sister device, the Android -based Surface Duo , was released in September 2020. Microsoft had first envisioned a dual-touchscreen device with its Courier concept, while rumors surfaced in 2017 of a similar project codenamed "Andromeda"—a foldable device which would use electronic paper displays. During a Surface hardware event on October 2, 2019, Microsoft unveiled
6045-557: The next version (1988 for Macintosh, 1990 for Windows) was extended to also produce color 35mm slides by communicating a file over a modem to a Genigraphics imaging center with slides returned by overnight delivery for projection from slide projectors . PowerPoint was used for planning and preparing a presentation, but not for delivering it (apart from previewing it on a computer screen, or distributing printed paper copies). The operation of PowerPoint changed substantially in its third version (1992 for Windows and Macintosh), when PowerPoint
6138-442: The only four devices with TB4/USB4 support. Devices older than these models are not supported on the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock, notably the Surface Book 2 (which has a USB-C port that does not support Thunderbolt connectivity). In addition to the Surface Dock, Microsoft has released a USB-C adapter that allows the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop to use generic USB-C docking stations with the Surface Connect port. The adapter, styled
6231-490: The plastic material for the felt-like material found on the Type Covers. The Type Cover 2 is thinner and features back-lit keys. With the release of the Surface Pro 3 , a newer cover called the Surface Pro 3 Type Cover was released to fit the bigger screen. The Surface Pro 3 Type Cover features a second magnetized strip that can be rested against the screen to prop the keyboard up at an angle. The Surface Pro 3 Type Cover has
6324-407: The postponement of dual-screen devices and the cancellation of its planned operating system. Reports from testers indicated that the Neo felt cramped to use in a laptop posture due to its 9-inch displays, and that the prototype models were prone to overheating. In a 2022 interview, Microsoft chief product officer Panos Panay stated of devices such as the Surface Neo that "Whether it’s two screens or
6417-513: The presentation if they were added in using a desktop app. Some elements, like WordArt effects or more advanced animations and transitions, are not displayed at all, although they are preserved in the document. PowerPoint for the web also lacks the Outline, Master, Slide Sorter, and Presenter views present in the desktop app, as well as having limited printing options. PowerPoint was originally targeted just for business presentations. Robert Gaskins, who
6510-692: The product known as PowerPoint. When PowerPoint was released by Forethought, its initial press was favorable; the Wall Street Journal reported on early reactions: " 'I see about one product a year I get this excited about,' says Amy hora, a consultant in Bala Cynwyd, Pa. 'People will buy a Macintosh just to get access to this product . ' " On April 28, 1987, a week after shipment, a group of Microsoft's senior executives spent another day at Forethought to hear about initial PowerPoint sales on Macintosh and plans for Windows. The following day, Microsoft sent
6603-490: The release of the fifth-generation Surface Pro , where Microsoft decided to unbundle the Surface Pen . The original touch cover came with 80 touch sensors and was pressure sensitive. With the release of the Surface 2 a Touch Cover 2 was announced which increased the number of sensors to 1,092 and added backlit keys while being thinner than the original Touch Cover. In addition, the Touch Cover 2 also supported key gestures and
6696-479: The right moment, in conjunction with our OEM partners, to bring dual-screen devices to market". However, this did not occur, and Windows 10X was ultimately cancelled the following year. Aspects of the OS were eventually incorporated into Windows 11 . Microsoft released the Surface Neo's Android counterpart, the Surface Duo, in September 2020, but the Neo was quietly shelved, with no confirmation from Microsoft beyond
6789-534: The same as the Surface Dock "brick" supports USB 3, Display Port alternate mode, and charging via USB Power Delivery. Charging requires USB power sources that output 12V, 15V, or 20V. Most cell phone and tablet chargers at the time did not support these voltage levels, however USB-PD Chargers sold today that offer at least 45W output are able to charge lower-voltage Surface devices while in use. The adapter could also maintain power to Surface Book models and Surface Laptop 3-5 while powered on (maximum USB-PD output to device
6882-417: The same compatibility to older devices that worked on Surface Dock 1, however, the same limitations in video output on Surface Dock 2 remained (2K at 60Hz, 4K at 30Hz) due largely to integrated video output limits on reduced voltage. A USB-C "travel dock" was released at the same time as Surface Dock 2 with lower power usage and five ports: Ethernet, HDMI, VGA, USB-A and USB-C (charging limited to 12W.) Unlike
6975-401: The user to rest his or her palm on the screen while using the Surface Pen without triggering an unwanted input. It is compatible with any Bluetooth-enabled device. There are various Docking Stations for different Surface Laptop devices, which are optional non-included accessories. They each extend the Surface with a number of USB ports, additional audio sockets, a Gigabit Ethernet port and
7068-481: The wheel's abilities, when developing apps. Some third-party applications that were included in the Surface Dial launch include Drawboard PDF, Sketchable, StaffPad and Mental Canvas Player. The Surface Dial works on the screen of the Surface Studio, Surface Book 2 and Surface Pro 2017 and off-screen with other Windows 10 devices (that support Bluetooth 4.0 LE ) as well including the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 . Microsoft's Terry Myerson told Engadget that
7161-464: The years. Most prominently, are the Surface keyboard covers and the Surface Pen , which were both introduced at launch. While the keyboard covers have all been sold independently of the Surface devices, the initial release of the Surface and Surface Pro had bundle options, which bundled the black Touch Cover. The Surface Pen has been included with all Surface line and Surface Pro line devices up until
7254-738: Was "evolving the core of Windows 10", and that Microsoft was "working to take the best of the applications that people need and use most — things like Mail , Calendar , and PowerPoint — and bring them over to dual screens in a way that creates flexible and rich experiences that are unique to this OS and devices". In May 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic , Microsoft changed its plans for Windows 10X; chief product officer for Microsoft Windows and Office Panos Panay announced that Microsoft and its partners planned to launch Windows 10X with only single-screen devices, stating that "we need to focus on meeting customers where they are now", and would "continue to look for
7347-449: Was a function lock light, separated keys, and a 40% larger touchpad than previous models. A " Fingerprint ID " version was also announced but is only available in the color black. Both are backwards compatible with the Surface Pro 3, though both are designed for the Surface Pro 4. A Signature Type Cover designed out of grey Alcantara was announced on April 12, 2016. With the launch of the fifth-generation Surface Pro , Microsoft expanded
7440-431: Was a tiny part of the total presentation market, which was very heavily dominated by MS-DOS applications on PCs. The market leaders on MS-DOS in 1988–1989 were Harvard Graphics (introduced by Software Publishing in 1986 ) in first place, and Lotus Freelance Plus (also introduced in 1986 ) as a strong second. They were competing with more than a dozen other MS-DOS presentation products, and Microsoft did not develop
7533-446: Was advertised and sold separately from Office. It was, as before, included in Microsoft Office 3.0 , both for Windows and the corresponding version for Macintosh. A plan to integrate the applications themselves more tightly had been indicated as early as February 1991, toward the end of PowerPoint 3.0 development, in an internal memo by Bill Gates: Another important question is what portion of our applications sales over time will be
7626-456: Was backwards compatible with the first generation Surface devices. Microsoft never made another Touch Cover after the release of the Surface Pro 3. It is compatible with the Surface 2 . With the release of the first generation Surface Pro , Microsoft launched the Type Cover which has tactile keys. It was upgraded along with the second generation Surfaces to the Type Cover 2 which substituted
7719-408: Was called "Presenter". Then, just before release, there was a last-minute check with Forethought's lawyers to register the name as a trademark, and "Presenter" was unexpectedly rejected because it had already been used by someone else. Gaskins says that he thought of "PowerPoint", based on the product's goal of "empowering" individual presenters, and sent that name to the lawyers for clearance, while all
7812-468: Was created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin at a software startup in Silicon Valley named Forethought, Inc. Forethought had been founded in 1983 to create an integrated environment and applications for future personal computers that would provide a graphical user interface, but it had run into difficulties requiring a "restart" and new plan. On July 5, 1984, Forethought hired Robert Gaskins as its vice president of product development to create
7905-560: Was extended to also deliver a presentation by producing direct video output to digital projectors or large monitors. In 1992 video projection of presentations was rare and expensive, and practically unknown from a laptop computer. Robert Gaskins, one of the creators of PowerPoint, says he publicly demonstrated that use for the first time at a large Microsoft meeting held in Paris on February 25, 1992, by using an unreleased development build of PowerPoint 3.0 running on an early pre-production sample of
7998-437: Was part of the first Office bundle for Macintosh which was offered in mid-1989. When PowerPoint 2.0 for Windows appeared, a year later, it was part of a similar Office bundle for Windows, which was offered in late 1990. Both of these were bundling promotions, in which the independent applications were packaged together and offered for a lower total price. PowerPoint 3.0 (1992) was again separately specified and developed, and
8091-496: Was placing a PowerPoint file on a web site for people to view at different times. They found that some of these ways of using PowerPoint could influence the content of presentations, for example when "the slides themselves have to carry more of the substance of the presentation, and thus need considerably more content than they would have if they were intended for projection by a speaker who would orally provide additional details and nuance about content and context." PowerPoint Mobile
8184-477: Was planned to run Windows 10X, an edition of Windows 10 designed exclusively for dual-touchscreen and folding devices. It featured noticeable changes to the Windows user interface, including a centered taskbar, and an updated Start menu using a grid of pinned applications (as opposed to Windows 10's existing "live tiles"). It also contained architectural differences, including having Win32 software running within
8277-409: Was reorganized from the independent "Graphics Business Unit" (GBU) to become the "Graphics Product Unit" (GPU) for Office, and PowerPoint 4.0 changed to adopt a converged user interface and other components shared with the other apps in Office. When it was released, the computer press reported on the change approvingly: "PowerPoint 4.0 has been re-engineered from the ground up to resemble and work with
8370-426: Was reported as 63 percent. By the last six months of 1992, PowerPoint revenue was running at a rate of over $ 100 million annually ($ 268 million in present-day terms ). Sales of PowerPoint 3.0 doubled to about 2 million copies in 1993, of which about 90 percent were for Windows and about 10 percent for Macintosh, and in 1993 PowerPoint's market share of worldwide presentation graphics software sales
8463-508: Was reported as 78 percent. In both years, about half of total revenue came from sales outside the U.S. By 1997 PowerPoint sales had doubled again, to more than 4 million copies annually, representing 85 percent of the world market. Also in 1997, an internal publication from the PowerPoint group said that by then over 20 million copies of PowerPoint were in use, and that total revenues from PowerPoint over its first ten years (1987 to 1996) had already exceeded $ 1 billion. Since
8556-416: Was responsible for its design, has written about his intended customers: "... I did not target other existing large groups of users of presentations, such as school teachers or military officers. ... I also did not plan to target people who were not existing users of presentations ... such as clergy and school children ... . Our focus was purely on business users, in small and large companies, from one person to
8649-431: Was shipped in 1992 for both Windows and Mac, added live video for projectors and monitors, with the result that PowerPoint was thereafter used for delivering presentations as well as for preparing them. This was at first an alternative to overhead transparencies and 35 mm slides, but over time would come to replace them. PowerPoint had been included in Microsoft Office from the beginning. PowerPoint 2.0 for Macintosh
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