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Share There’s a lot of brouhaha today stemming from a report in the New York Times about PowerPoint negatively affecting the US military apparatus. Super-smart graphics maven Nancy Duarte, for example, chimes in here. A lot of discussion centers on the complex chart topping the NY Times article. Ex-McKinsey consultant and PowerPoint guru explains (and partly defends) [...] Share Recently I wrote about ten things Microsoft doesn’t get enough credit for. Today I want to point out ten opportunities that they missed, things I was there for. I’m avoiding anything that is not public knowledge, of course. I’m not suggesting they should have jumped on all of these; it might not have been an economically [...] Share Yesterday I went through part 1 of a list of ten things I think Microsoft has done right. Some of these are major, industry- or world-changing items. Others are smaller but overlooked contributions that deserve to be recognized. All of it is my opinion; there’s no scientific method in play. Yesterday’s list included Driving down the cost [...] Share I left Microsoft just over a year ago. Looking back, three things in particular strike me. There are good substitutes for much of the Microsoft software I use. Other Microsoft products, however, I find indispensable. I wrote about this in a series of posts a few months ago. |
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