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PowerPoint wasn't the first though, was it? I remember Harvard Graphics and something from Lotus also?
by shrubble 3y ago
PowerPoint wasn't the first though, was it? I remember Harvard Graphics and something from Lotus also?
- largbae 3y agoAnd HyperCard!
- dreamcompiler 3y agoAldus Persuasion was far superior to Powerpoint. Sadly it got bought and killed.
- shrubble 3y agoAdobe should never have been allowed to buy them, there had been an anti-trust decree which was later removed...
- ghaff 3y agoThere was quite the profusion of office productivity software at one point, some of which had approaches that I preferred (at least for some purposes) to those that ended up being enshrined in the Microsoft suite. One of the things I like about Google Workplace is it ended up stripping out a lot of the sort of cruft that Microsoft added over the years and ended up with components that are more streamlined for my generally fairly simple needs.
- bonzini 3y agoYes, Lotus Freelance. Also IBM Storyboard. Not sure which of those had vector graphics in the same style as modern PowerPoint (Storyboard was bitmapped), and whether old PowerPoint already had vector graphics.
- KingLancelot 3y ago[dead]
- james-bcn 3y agoYes, Harvard Graphics was good. I remember using it around 1991.
- steve1977 3y agoNothing from Microsoft was ever the first.
- FiddlerClamp 3y agoHarvard Graphics was more charting software. A bunch of office suites in the early/mid-80s had the 'required' charting module. Harvard Graphics truly was horrible to work with. Very unintuitive. PowerPoint felt like a revelation in comparison.
- paradox460 3y agoDon't forget hypercard