[Gllug] Microsoft was distributing Ubuntu

[John G Walker]

On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 10:00:38 +0100 Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 01:28:16PM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> > --------
> > 
> > Christopher Hunter writes:
> > 
> > >> 2. Presentation Software. (nothing competes with Powerpoint
> > >> unfortunately)
> > >
> > >The "flakiness" factor in Powerpoint makes it mostly unusable in
> > >reality.
> > 
> > Wow. It's amazing how distorted a view of the world you can have
> > when you're cloistered in a small community. Powerpoint may have
> > its faults, but to claim its unusable it just laughable, given
> > the millions around the world that use it on a daily basis.
> 
> On the very few occasions when I have used it or seen others using it,
> I do wonder how they put up with its inherent crapulousness.
> 

What PowerPoint does is to display slides on a computer screen. If
there's a problem, it comes from the people who make the slides, as I
pointed out in another sub-thread.

The inherent problem with PowerPoint is that it makes it incredibly
easy to produce a large number of useless slides. Se the Video Arts
film on slide shows for how to do this with an earlier technology,


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 John
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