Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780985142421)

PowerPoint was the first presentation software designed for Macintosh and Windows, received the first venture capital investment ever made by Apple, and then became the first significant acquisition ever made by Microsoft, who set up a new Graphics Business Unit in Silicon Valley to develop it further. Now, twenty-five years later, PowerPoint is installed on over one billion computers worldwide.

In this book, Robert Gaskins (who invented the idea, managed its design and development, and then headed the new Microsoft group) tells the story of its first years, recounting the perils and disasters narrowly evaded as a startup, dissecting the complexities of being the first distant development group in Microsoft, and explaining decisions and insights that enabled PowerPoint to become a lasting success well beyond its original business uses.

Author: Robert Gaskins
ISBN-10: 0985142421
ISBN-13: 9780985142421
Publisher: Vinland Books
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2012
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.14d