<story><title>How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M</title><url>https://blog.zamzar.com/2016/06/10/deal-of-the-century-how-microsoft-beat-apple-to-buy-powerpoint-for-14-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martin-adams</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s so ironic that the first version of Powerpoint was for Mac which ended up helping give Windows it&amp;#x27;s name when running Office.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen Powerpoint used for so many crazy things.  Most notably non-technical managers designing a UI in Powerpoint. It&amp;#x27;s just one of those, lets just get the job done pieces of software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikehearn</author><text>I am unabashedly in support of using presentation software for initial UI design. For basic wireframing, you don&amp;#x27;t need much more than the ability add shapes, text, color, images + a way to demonstrate user flow (e.g. by ordering slides). Presentation software is perfect for this. It is accessible to everyone, lets non-technical users offer constructive input and is just incredibly fast to get something basic circulated.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M</title><url>https://blog.zamzar.com/2016/06/10/deal-of-the-century-how-microsoft-beat-apple-to-buy-powerpoint-for-14-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martin-adams</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s so ironic that the first version of Powerpoint was for Mac which ended up helping give Windows it&amp;#x27;s name when running Office.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen Powerpoint used for so many crazy things.  Most notably non-technical managers designing a UI in Powerpoint. It&amp;#x27;s just one of those, lets just get the job done pieces of software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmarreck</author><text>The first version of Excel was ALSO for Mac.&lt;p&gt;I think the Macintosh doesn&amp;#x27;t get enough credit for what it inspired at the time.</text></comment>