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Celebrating 30+ years of MS Word
A potted history of how Microsoft Word came to be. From the early days of DOS to Clippy the dreaded Paperclip, we cover it all.
The dream boss? What it was like to work for Bill Gates
This is part three of a series of stories by Robert Gaskins who helped invent PowerPoint at Forethought Inc. in 1984 (see part one and part two). It was the first significant acquisition made by Microsoft. We spoke to Robert about the process of building a startup in the…
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Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980’s
This is part two of a series of stories by Robert Gaskins who helped invent PowerPoint at Forethought Inc. in 1984 (read part one here). It was the first significant acquisition made by Microsoft. We spoke to Robert about building a startup in the 1980s and…
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Deal of the century? How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14 million
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Convert pptx files to ppt, odp, html, pcx, pdf, png, ps and swf
Great news ! We've been working hard here at Zamzar to round out our support for Microsoft Office 2007 files, and we're pleased to announce that you can now use Zamzar to convert "pptx" files generated by Office 2007 to…
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Convert xlsx files to xls, ods, csv, doc, html, mdb, pdf, rtf and xml
You can now use Zamzar to convert "xlsx" files generated by Microsoft Office 2007 to a variety of different formats, including plain old "xls" (enabling you to view and edit your spreadsheets in older versions of Microsoft Office) and "ods"…
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