In my role, the application that I use far more than any other is Microsoft PowerPoint. Creating new slide decks, "borrowing" cool slides from corporate executives, building stackand flow diagrams...that's my life. Although PowerPoint 2003 is a great tool, there are some very signficant enhancements coming in the new version. Due out by the end of this year, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 is going to drastically change how I personally get my job done.
To highlight some of the changes, I interviewed Jared Andersen, the Product Manager for PowerPoint. He talks about how the graphics engine, templates and clipart have been overhauled, the benefits that PowerPoint gets from adopting the new Office user interface, and how easy it is to now share PowerPoint presentations with other people. My favorite part of the discussion is when Jared outlines how PowerPoint slides can be saved to a 'slide library' in SharePoint and information workers can subscribe to individual slides to be notified when they change. Pretty cool stuff! For anybody who spends time in PowerPoint, this prodcast is for you.
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For more information on PowerPoint 2007, please visit the Microsoft website.