Microsoft PowerPoint is one of many programs run by the company Microsoft and it can be identified by its trademark orange, and P initial on the logo. This was Microsoft’s first significant acquisition, and Microsoft set up a new business unit for PowerPoint in Silicon Valley where Forethought had been located. Microsoft acquired PowerPoint for $14.000.000 three months after it appeared. It was released on April 20, 1987, initially for Macintosh computers only. Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program, which is created by Dennis Austin and Robert Gaskins at a software company named Forethought, Inc.
