PowerPoint 1.0

Microsoft PowerPoint is a graphical presentation tool that is today part of Microsoft Office. Prior to its acquisition by Microsoft, it was known as "Presenter" from Forethought Inc. These are the standalone versions. For the Office bundled versions, see Microsoft Office.

When first released for Windows, it competed with Aldus Persuasion, Micrografx Charisma, DrawPerfect, Freelance Graphics, and Harvard Graphics. Also see a list of all Presentation programs archived by Winworld.



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Release notes

PowerPoint 1.0, from Forethought Inc, is a program for making quick and easy business presentations. PowerPoint supports printing to transparencies and slides, or displaying a slideshow on the screen.

Installation instructions

Archive contains two 800K 3.5" disk images in raw image format.

Wanted: Microsoft PowerPoint 1.01 for Macintosh (Microsoft relabeled), manual scans.

Product type
Application Presentations
Vendor
Forethough
Release date
1987
Minimum CPU
m68k Mac
User interface
GUI
Platform
MacOS
Download count
42 (2 for release)

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
Forethought PowerPoint 1.0 for Macintosh (3.5-800k) 1.0 for Macintosh English 480.5KB 2

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