Bill Gates gave the world Excel, Word, Powerpoint, etc, so the humanity could become creative, educated and thriving. Zuckerberg gave the world social media and the world became ...
> Bill Gates gave the world Excel, Word, Powerpoint, etc, so the humanity could become creative, educated and thriving. Zuckerberg gave the world social media and the world became ...
I know it's a joke, but positioning Bill Gates, especially early-'90s-era Bill Gates, as some sort of savior doesn't work for me.
Now, Knuth gave the world TeX, and I'm all on board for praising that contribution to humanity.
Hmm I get the point, still PowerPointing is always use as a term for “not really doing any work”. I guess it is because it always to try to explain to our businesses what could work and you have to do a lot before something catches on. Yeah I know, little vision in our business.
Powerpoint was actually unique from the others in that it was an acquisition from a company called Forethought. It had a single release in 1987 before MSFT bought it and was for a very long time the only part of Office not built in Redmond (the purchase promised to keep the eng team in California within the then-newly created Graphics Business Unit).
I know it's a joke, but positioning Bill Gates, especially early-'90s-era Bill Gates, as some sort of savior doesn't work for me.
Now, Knuth gave the world TeX, and I'm all on board for praising that contribution to humanity.