{"id":20533,"date":"2008-10-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/10\/17\/the-cult-of-powerpoint-episode-2\/"},"modified":"2008-10-17T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T10:00:00","slug":"the-cult-of-powerpoint-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20081017-00\/?p=20533","title":{"rendered":"The cult of PowerPoint, episode 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PowerPoint is a fine presentation tool, but <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2003\/12\/22\/45301.aspx\"> some people have elevated it to the level of a cult<\/a>. The most recent member of the PowerPoint cult was a customer who decided to use PowerPoint in an email message.<\/p>\n<p> No, I don&#8217;t mean that the customer attached a bad PowerPoint presentation to the email. I mean that the customer&#8217;s email was itself a three-slide PowerPoint presentation. <\/p>\n<p> Well, not quite. <\/p>\n<p> What they actually did was create a three-slide presentation, then take screenshots of each slide and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/08\/19\/8877486.aspx\"> embed them in the email<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> Well, not quite. <\/p>\n<p> The screenshots were shrunk to save size. Each page from the PowerPoint presentation contained about 50 words of text. Which were very hard to read because the screenshots were shrunk. <\/p>\n<p> The PowerPoint presentation itself was a shortened form of your typical boring PowerPoint slide presentation. The first slide was an introduction to the program they were using. The second slide was a statement of the problem they were having. The third slide was a call to action for Microsoft to assist in determining why the program was having the problem. <\/p>\n<p> Thank goodness it didn&#8217;t have a concluding &#8220;Any questions?&#8221; slide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PowerPoint is a fine presentation tool, but some people have elevated it to the level of a cult. The most recent member of the PowerPoint cult was a customer who decided to use PowerPoint in an email message. No, I don&#8217;t mean that the customer attached a bad PowerPoint presentation to the email. I mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,103],"class_list":["post-20533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-email","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>PowerPoint is a fine presentation tool, but some people have elevated it to the level of a cult. The most recent member of the PowerPoint cult was a customer who decided to use PowerPoint in an email message. No, I don&#8217;t mean that the customer attached a bad PowerPoint presentation to the email. I mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}