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The Software That Changed Business Communication
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Acquired returns with a classic, delving into Microsoft's first acquisition ever: Forethought Inc, the makers of PowerPoint. Hate it or love it, you can't deny the combined companies' impact: by the early 90's PowerPoint had transformed the way businesses, educators and governments communicate, ensuring job security for pointy-haired Dilbert bosses everywhere!
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- Robert Gaskins' definitive history of building PowerPoint: Sweating Bullets
- The Improbable Origins of PowerPoint by David C. Brock (director of the Center for Software History at the Computer History Museum)
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