FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Dennis Austin designed and developed PowerPoint while working at Forethought, Inc., in Mountain View and Sunnyvale, California. He worked closely with Robert Gaskins, who conceived the program, and Tom Rudkin, who helped develop it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Microsoft PowerPoint, virtual presentation software developed by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin for the American computer software company Forethought, Inc. The program, initially named Presenter, was released for the Apple Macintosh in 1987.

Detailed explanation-3: -Following their acquisition, Microsoft released its first official version of PowerPoint in 1990. By 1993, PowerPoint was making $100 million in sales annually. The early versions of PowerPoint only produced transparencies, handouts, and speaker notes until the rise of laptops made transparencies obsolete.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -PowerPoint was developed by Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin at Forethought Inc. It was supposed to be named Presenter, but the name was not adapted due to trademark issues. It was renamed PowerPoint in 1987 as suggested by Robert Gaskins.