Microsoft powerpoint is a presentation program, created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin at a software company named Forethought, Inc. It was released on April 20, 1987, initially for Macintosh computers only.Microsoft acquired PowerPoint for about $14 million three months after it appeared. This was Microsoft's first significant acquisition,and Microsoft set up a new business unit for PowerPoint in Silicon Valley where Forethought had been located
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