are there any Power Point Popularity statistics ?

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Hi there guys

Do you know of any site that provide power point statistics , user penetration ?
SOmething like Browser version and resolutions ?
Is hard to search that out , most of the time result on " power point statistics"
brings power point files with companies statistics :)

We doing some CD work and my client try to find out most suitable format .
I would appreciate if you know of any urls I could check .

thank you



Regards

urami
 
I believe what you are trying to determine is if your project should be
distributed in PowerPoint or other format. If you design the presentation
and include the PPT Viewer app. (virtually) any PC will be able to view.
Here is some additional information:

New 2003 Viewer: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00436.htm
Autorun CD (to play PowerPoint):
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00037.htm **Note: PPT 2003 Package for CD
feature automates this process.

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PowerPoint is the most popular presentation program in the world. There are,
however, other methods of giving presentations, such as videos, films,
Flash, and more.
 
Are there any such sites? I am trying to put together some statistics to
help explain to people why good presentations matter, why it is worth the
time, trouble and effort (and cost) of doing them well. I am interested in
the 'noise' - the hundreds of other presentations - that a presenter often
has to battle against.

So to repeat the question - does anyone know of any statistics out there?

Martin Conradi
www.ShowcaseSolutions.net
 
Hi Martin,

Some articles, a few stats, and lots of tidbits about PowerPoint are
at my weblog about presentations at http://tonyramos.com/

Among those links ...

"PowerPoint is way beyond branding. It left branding in the dust long
ago. With more than 300 million users worldwide, according to a
Microsoft spokesperson, with a share of the presentation software
market that is said to top 95 percent and with an increasing number of
grade school students indoctrinated every day into the PowerPoint
way--chopping up complex ideas and information into bite-sized nuggets
of a few words, and then further pureeing those nuggets into bullet
items of even fewer words--PowerPoint seems poised for world
domination."

-- Killing me Microsoftly with PowerPoint by Julia Keller (I think the
new figure is 400 million -- TR)

"According to Microsoft estimates, at least thirty million PowerPoint
presentations are made every day."

-- Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts? by
Ian Parker (again, this might be low)


You may have seen those stats already, but feel free to peruse and use
....

HTH,
Tony

Tony Ramos
Specialist in PowerPoint Presentation Design
http://tonyramos.com
 
"PowerPoint seems poised for world
domination."

PowerPoint *already* dominates the world. :)

Btw, IMO it was unwise of MSFT to leave PPT out of the smaller versions of
Office. Many people do not know that, don't read the box to see what
components are included, and find themselves screwed. Maybe if MSFT put
"DOES NOT CONTAIN PPT" on all sides of the box, fewer folks would get
zapped. ?
 
I think MS realized this. Most (all?) retail editions of Office 2003 now
include PowerPoint. So far as I recall, the only one that doesn't is Office
Basic, available only as an OEM version (ie, the one that comes with your
shiny new Dell computer .... and this is, in fact, the version that Dell's
shipping, by the way).

It seems to me it'd be better if MS didn't muddy the waters with so many
editions, but it's also on the heads of vendors like Dell to make their
customers aware of what they're getting.

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Posted to news://msnews.microsoft.com
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PowerPoint FAQ - www.pptfaq.com
PPTools - www.pptools.com
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agreed

--
Walter Donavan
Steve Rindsberg said:
I think MS realized this. Most (all?) retail editions of Office 2003 now
include PowerPoint. So far as I recall, the only one that doesn't is Office
Basic, available only as an OEM version (ie, the one that comes with your
shiny new Dell computer .... and this is, in fact, the version that Dell's
shipping, by the way).

It seems to me it'd be better if MS didn't muddy the waters with so many
editions, but it's also on the heads of vendors like Dell to make their
customers aware of what they're getting.

--
Posted to news://msnews.microsoft.com
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PowerPoint FAQ - www.pptfaq.com
PPTools - www.pptools.com
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statistics
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Steve said:
I think MS realized this. Most (all?) retail editions of Office 2003 now
include PowerPoint. So far as I recall, the only one that doesn't is Office
Basic, available only as an OEM version (ie, the one that comes with your
shiny new Dell computer .... and this is, in fact, the version that Dell's
shipping, by the way).
Click to expand...

Gateway, too, FWIW.

When Office 2003 first came out and I saw "Office Basic" mentioned, I
checked out the Gateway and Dell sites. Both have pretty straightforward
information re what comes with Office Basic (Word, Excel and Outlook, I
think it is) and what comes with other versions if you opt to upgrade.

I hope that the name "Basic" is more, mmm, descriptive than "Small
Business Edition" was and allows fewer people fall into the "Where's
PPT?" trap.
 
Thanks, Tony. You've got some nice stuff on that site of yours... well worth
a look.

Martin
 
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