All the other presentations programs dried up.
Next, he introduced Keynote, a presentation program like -- or, rather, unlike -- Microsoft's PowerPoint.
Although Apple's new presentation program, known as Keynote, will directly challenge PowerPoint, Mr. Jobs was coy about whether he was planning a direct assault on other parts of Microsoft's second monopoly, the dominant Office applications suite.
Q.Is it possible to open and view PowerPoint files on a Linux machine? A. While PowerPoint -- the presentation program in the Microsoft Office suite -- is not available for Linux, you have some options.
In 2003 both the Windows and Macintosh versions were renamed Microsoft Office Word to align with the Microsoft Office suite, which is built around Word, Excel (a spreadsheet program), and PowerPoint (a visual presentation program).
The amount of time expended on PowerPoint, the Microsoft presentation program of computer-generated charts, graphs and bullet points, has made it a running joke in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Mac version of Microsoft's Office suite, which includes the Word 98 word-processing program, Excel 98 for spreadsheets and the PowerPoint 98 presentation program, also had features that didn't appear on the other platform until the release of Office 2000 for Windows.
To Professor Tufte (pronounced TUF-tee), that chart exemplifies a dismaying pattern in the way data are presented in too many meetings, especially those dominated by "the overhead projector that magically rises out of the rosewood table" or its electronic successor, a computer linked to a projector, running a presentation program like Microsoft's PowerPoint.
The clear space for improvement: you can't (at present) choose a chart you've already created in Numbers and paste it or link to it in Keynote, the presentation program – though you can into Pages (with a static or interactive chart).
The presentation program is similarly disadvantaged.
