Editing Microsoft PowerPoint (section)

===Part of Microsoft Office (since 1993)===
{{See also|History of Microsoft Office}}
PowerPoint had been included in [[Microsoft Office]] from the beginning. PowerPoint 2.0 for Macintosh was part of the first Office bundle for Macintosh which was offered in mid-1989.<ref name="mac-office-1989">{{Cite news |last=Flynn |first=Laurie |date=June 19, 1989 |title=The Microsoft Office Bundles 4 Programs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lzAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17 |newspaper=InfoWorld |issn=0199-6649 |volume=11 |issue=25 |page=37 <!-- Note pg in URL is correctly off by 20, PA37 doesn't work --> |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240527085716/https://www.webcitation.org/6Ym7SWz2j?url=https://filetea.me/t1s8ljg1ymETEWjSQxw5r2mMQ |url-status=live |archive-date=May 27, 2024 |access-date=August 24, 2017 |quote=A special promotion announced last week by Microsoft Corp. enables Macintosh customers to buy four of the company's business applications at a 35 percent discount. The special edition, called The Microsoft Office, includes Word 4.0, Excel 2.2, PowerPoint 2.01, and Mail 1.37. The package sells for $849; if purchased separately, the programs would cost $1,310, the company said. The promotion is available until the end of the year.}}</ref> When PowerPoint 2.0 for Windows appeared, a year later, it was part of a similar Office bundle for Windows, which was offered in late 1990.<ref name="win-office-1990">{{Cite news |last=Johnston |first=Stuart J. |date=October 1, 1990 |title=Office for Windows Bundles Popular Microsoft Applications |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VTwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT17 |newspaper=InfoWorld |issn=0199-6649 |volume=12 |issue=40 |page=16 <!-- Note pg in URL is correctly off by 1 and PT, PA17 doesn't work --> |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240527085840/https://www.webcitation.org/6Ym8WVBD3?url=https://filetea.me/t1s24zfAGB3Qm6bLZB2JeRKdg |url-status=live |archive-date=May 27, 2024 |access-date=August 24, 2017 |quote=Microsoft last week announced the release of The Microsoft Office for Windows, which bundles three of the company's popular Windows applications—Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—for significantly less than they would cost separately. The product brings to the Windows environment basically the equivalent of The Microsoft Office for Macintosh, which was announced a year ago.}}</ref> Both of these were bundling promotions, in which the independent applications were packaged together and offered for a lower total price.<ref name="mac-office-1989" /><ref name="win-office-1990"/>

PowerPoint 3.0 (1992) was again separately specified and developed,<ref name="austin-timeline-2001-lead" /> and was advertised and sold separately from Office.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Microsoft Corporation|date=March 1993 |title=New PowerPoint 3.0. Because powerful tools make powerful presentations |url=https://archive.org/stream/MacWorld_9303_March_1993#page/n1/mode/2up |type=advertisement |newspaper=MacWorld |issn=0741-8647 |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=BA1–BA2 (inside front cover spread) |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240528061023/https://www.webcitation.org/6sxzJkfQc?url=https://filetea.me/n3wgT51xEYjRt6alx4riYE5fg |url-status=live |archive-date=May 28, 2024 |access-date=August 24, 2017}}</ref> It was, as before, included in [[Microsoft Office 3.0]], both for Windows and the corresponding version for Macintosh.<ref>{{Cite news |last=<!-- no byline --> |date=August 31, 1992 |title=Microsoft Office now has Mail, PowerPoint |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EVEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15 |department=Pipeline |newspaper=InfoWorld |issn=0199-6649 |volume=14 |issue=35 |page=15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221124333/https://books.google.com/books/content?id=EVEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U0RcN93Pp_McbAK0yCLoIO3niurMw |url-status=live |archive-date=December 21, 2016 |access-date=August 23, 2017}}</ref>

A plan to integrate the applications themselves more tightly had been indicated as early as February 1991, toward the end of PowerPoint 3.0 development, in an internal memo by Bill Gates:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00577.pdf |title=Market Share of Applications in the United States |last=Gates |first=Bill |author-link=Bill Gates |date=February 19, 1991 |type=Microsoft Memo |website=Slated Antitrust (scanned court evidence files) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828062531/http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00577.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=August 28, 2017 |access-date=August 22, 2017}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|Another important question is what portion of our applications sales over time will be a set of applications versus a single product. ... Please assume that we stay ahead in integrating our family together in evaluating our future strategies—the product teams WILL deliver on this. ... I believe that we should position the "OFFICE" as our most important application.}}

The move from bundling separate products to integrated development began with PowerPoint 4.0, developed in 1993–1994 under new management from Redmond.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=1123010&privcapId=1217370 |title=Executive Profile: Vijay R. Vashee |last=S&P Global Market Intelligence |date=2017 |website=Bloomberg.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822230747/https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=1123010&privcapId=1217370 |url-status=live |archive-date=August 22, 2017 |access-date=August 22, 2017 |quote=From 1982 ... Mr. Vashee served in various senior marketing, product management and executive positions at Microsoft. ... and as the General Manager for PowerPoint from 1992 to 1997 ... played a key role in the integration of PowerPoint into the Microsoft Office suite.}}</ref> The PowerPoint group in Silicon Valley was reorganized from the independent "Graphics Business Unit" (GBU) to become the "Graphics Product Unit" (GPU) for Office, and PowerPoint 4.0 changed to adopt a converged user interface and other components shared with the other apps in Office.<ref name="austin-timeline-2001-lead" />

When it was released, the computer press reported on the change approvingly: "PowerPoint 4.0 has been re-engineered from the ground up to resemble and work with the latest applications in Office: Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, and Access 2.0. The integration is so good, you'll have to look twice to make sure you're running PowerPoint and not Word or Excel."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fridlund |first=Alan |date=June 6, 1994 |title=PowerPoint 4.0 makes it into the big time |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hzgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA95 |department=Reviews |newspaper=InfoWorld |issn=0199-6649 |volume=16 |issue=23 |pages=95–98 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6YmAg2aM9?url=https://filetea.me/t1sdT1vnOdpQOqyCVTgHxyljA |url-status=live |archive-date=May 24, 2015 |access-date=August 24, 2017}}</ref> Office integration was further underscored in the following version, PowerPoint 95, which was given the version number PowerPoint 7.0 (skipping 5.0 and 6.0) so that all the components of Office would share the same major version number.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lassesen.com/msdn/using%20microsoft%20ole%20automation%20servers%20to%20develop%20solutions.pdf |title=Using Microsoft OLE Automation Servers to Develop Solutions |last=Lassesen |first=Ken |date=October 17, 1995 |website=Archive of Articles from MSDN Technology Group |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807073017/http://www.lassesen.com/msdn/using%20microsoft%20ole%20automation%20servers%20to%20develop%20solutions.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=August 7, 2017 |access-date=August 24, 2017 |quote=Note that version 7.0 of a product is the same as a '95' designation, for example, Microsoft Excel 95 is the same as Microsoft Excel version 7.0.}}</ref>

Although PowerPoint by this point had become part of the integrated Microsoft Office product, its development remained in Silicon Valley. Succeeding versions of PowerPoint introduced important changes, particularly version 12.0 (2007) which had a very different shared Office "[[Ribbon (computing)|ribbon]]" user interface, and a new shared [[Office Open XML|Office XML-based file format]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338198(v=office.12).aspx |last=Microsoft |title=Developer Overview of the User Interface for the 2007 Microsoft Office System |date=May 2006 |website=Microsoft Developer Network |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707194202/https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338198(v=office.12).aspx |url-status=live |archive-date=July 7, 2017 |access-date=August 24, 2017}}</ref> This marked the 20th anniversary of PowerPoint, and Microsoft held an event to commemorate that anniversary at its Silicon Valley Campus for the PowerPoint team there. Special guests were Robert Gaskins, Dennis Austin, and Thomas Rudkin, and the featured speaker was Jeff Raikes, all from PowerPoint 1.0 days, 20 years before.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.robertgaskins.com/ |title=Microsoft's 20-year PPT party |last=Gaskins |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Gaskins |date=August 17, 2007 |website=Robert Gaskins Home Page |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824202650/http://www.robertgaskins.com/ |url-status=live |archive-date=August 24, 2017 |access-date=August 24, 2017}}</ref>

Since then major development of PowerPoint as part of Office has continued. New development techniques (shared across Office) for PowerPoint 2016 have made it possible to ship versions of PowerPoint 2016 for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and web access nearly simultaneously,{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} and to release new features on an almost monthly schedule.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-s-new-in-PowerPoint-2016-for-Windows-e8ef980c-5b12-4fff-ae3f-0819e6a21a1f |last=Microsoft |title=What's New in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows |date=2017 |website=Microsoft Support |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731220459/https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-s-new-in-PowerPoint-2016-for-Windows-e8ef980c-5b12-4fff-ae3f-0819e6a21a1f |url-status=live |archive-date=July 31, 2017 |access-date=August 26, 2017}}</ref> PowerPoint development is still carried out in Silicon Valley {{As of|2017|lc=y}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=305962&jlang=EN&pp=SS |title=Microsoft Careers: Senior Software Engineer (Job #1064262) |website=Microsoft Silicon Valley |date=August 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821205245/https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=305962&jlang=en&pp=ss |url-status=live |archive-date=August 21, 2017 |access-date=August 21, 2017 |quote=Come join the PowerPoint team ... in the heart of the Silicon Valley in Mountain View, CA. The PowerPoint team has the responsibility for the design, implementation, and testing ... .}}</ref>

In 2010, Jeff Raikes, who had most recently been President of the Business Division of Microsoft (including responsibility for Office),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.microsoft.com/2008/01/10/microsoft-announces-retirement-and-transition-plan-for-jeff-raikes-president-of-the-microsoft-business-division/ |title=Microsoft Announces Retirement and Transition Plan for Jeff Raikes, President of the Microsoft Business Division |last=Microsoft Corp. |date=January 10, 2008 |website=Microsoft News Center |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128004953/http://news.microsoft.com/2008/01/10/microsoft-announces-retirement-and-transition-plan-for-jeff-raikes-president-of-the-microsoft-business-division/ |archive-date=November 28, 2014 |url-status=live |access-date=August 25, 2017 |quote=MBD has grown to include ... the Microsoft Office system ... .}}</ref> observed: "of course, today we know that PowerPoint is oftentimes the number two—or in some cases even the number one—most-used tool" among the applications in Office.<ref name="raikes-history-pt2-2010-hist" />