Why is PowerPoint called like that?

GASKINS: We called our product “Presenter” for the three years of its development. But when we went to register our product name as a trademark, our intellectual property lawyers told us that “Presenter” had been claimed for presentation software shipped by some company in New Jersey. read more

3 – 10 Best PowerPoint Alternatives: Keynote. Keynote made the third place in our “Top 10 best PowerPoint alternatives” list because of its easy to use user interface (in comparison with PowerPoint). Keynote is only available as a software download for Mac users who won’t touch Microsoft PowerPoint if their life depended on it. read more

(5) OpenOffice Impress – OpenOffice is a free, cross-platform, open-source productivity suite that offers applications similar to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The presentation design app is called Impress, and works just like PowerPoint. read more