PowerPoint is a presentation program developed by Microsoft that creates a slide show of important information, charts, and images for a presentation. It is a complete presentation graphics package that offers word processing, outlining, drawing, graphing, and presentation management tools, all designed to be easy to use and learn. With PowerPoint, you can create presentations from scratch or a template, add text, images, art, and videos, select a professional design with PowerPoint Designer, add transitions, animations, and cinematic motion, and save to OneDrive to get to your presentations from your computer, tablet, or phone. PowerPoint is frequently used for business and school presentations.
PowerPoint was created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin at a software company named Forethought, Inc. and was initially released on April 20, 1987, for Macintosh computers only. Microsoft acquired PowerPoint for Windows on May 22, 1990. Today, PowerPoint is available in 102 languages and can be found in the Microsoft Office package installed on Microsoft Windows computers. If you do not have PowerPoint and dont want to purchase Microsoft Office to get it, you can try using Google Slides, a free online presentation program similar to PowerPoint. There is also a PowerPoint app available for download on mobile devices.
