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Microsoft powerpoint is a presentation program, created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin at a software company named Forethought, Inc.it is one of many programs run by the company Microsoft and can be identified by its trademark orange. It was released on April 20, 1987, initially for Macintosh computers only and it is originally designed to provide visuals for group presentations with in business organizations.but has come to be very widely used in many other communication situations, both in business and beyond.The impact of this much wider use of PowerPoint has been experienced as a powerful change throughout society, PowerPoint was integrated into Microsoft Office development, and adopted shared common components and a converged user interface. Powerpoint offers users many ways to display information from simple presentations to complex multimedia presentations.

Microsoft acquired powerpoint for $14 million three months after it appeared.This was Microsoft's first significant acquisition,PowerPoint became a component of the Microsoft Office suite.first offered in 1989 for Macintosh and in 1990 for Windows, which bundled several Microsoft apps.A dozen major versions since then have added many additional features and modes of operation and have made PowerPoint available beyond Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.

PPT is a file extension for a presentation file format used by Microsoft PowerPoint, the popular presentation software commonly used for office and educational slide shows.All text images, sound and video used in the presentation are contained in the PPT file.