Native desktop integration OpenOffice.org 1.0 was criticized for not having the look and feel of applications developed natively for the platforms on which it runs.

No, I'm looking actually at a special version of PowerPoint over here, which shows me the slides ahead, the slides behind, my notes from here, so I can see what's going on.

I actually find them a lot more emotional and personal, and the neat thing about a slide projector is you can actually focus the work, unlike PowerPoint and some other programs.

And then, turning round to the other side of the equation, I have personally supervised the investment of tens of millions of dollars into companies who have been pitching me with PowerPoint presentations.

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You make a PowerPoint, you know?

No Powerpoint is used in two days.

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Okay, let's go back to the slides.

Let me show you these slides here.

And let me just run through a few slides.

PowerPoint has this built into every copy of PowerPoint that's shipped.

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I'm going to go right into the slides.

I'll just flip through a few other slides.

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He was using old slides, not even the transparencies of the early 90s, but slides in square frames.

I had requested slides, kind of adamantly, up till the pretty much, last few days, but was denied access to a slide projector.

Let me go right into the slides.

Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.

And I'm going to show you slides of the exchange student.

Secrets. I'm using PowerPoint this year just because, you know, I'm into the TED thing.

Slides are okay, though you might consider going for props.

And if we can switch to slides all right, here we go.

And now look at this second set of slides.

And there's something nice about slides getting stuck.

Now, in the next few slides I'm just going to focus on that little square there.

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That's not my slides, but it's okay.

There are no slides, so you'll just have to be content with me.

So they pick the worst background from any kind of PowerPoint presentation, the worst typeface.

Or even worse, some kind of ghastly death by Powerpoint thing with WowCharts and all kinds of, you know, God knows, whatever.

But I guess that's in keeping, so now we'll just move to the PowerPoint presentation, ladies and gentlemen.

And I'll just take you through that a little bit in the next few slides.

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And all I've got is a box of slides.

These are the beautiful stairs which we just saw in one of the slides.

Have a look at some presentation slides on the ECB 's monetary policy .

The sort of artist conceptions these are basically PowerPoint presentations given to the Air Force 40 years ago.

The software product includes Word (a word processor), Access (a relational database program), Excel (a spreadsheet program), Outlook (Groupware, frequently used with Exchange Server), PowerPoint (presentation software), Publisher (desktop publishing software) and Sharepoint.

These are his slides, and so I don't have to talk about them.

And after we saw his slide show, it became clear that it was much more urgent.

I'd like to apologize, first of all, to all of you because I have no form of PowerPoint presentation.