The date was 20 April 1987.

That was the day Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin unearthed a monster – PowerPoint.

I’m sure Gaskins and Austin had no intention of  reeking havoc with their new software creation. They’re probably nice guys, and good on them for making $14 million when they sold PowerPoint to Microsoft.

Leaving aside all the pejorative statements about PowerPoint. For example, death by PowerPoint, why – why, are you still using PowerPoint, so ineffectively? (If you’re using the software well, apologies).

More importantly, what should you do about it?

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