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CTOnews.com, September 9, according to the Washington Post on September 8, local time, one of the inventors of PowerPoint, Dennis Austin, died on September 1 at his home in Los Altos, California, at the age of 76.

His son, Michael Austin (Michael Austin), said Dennis Austin died of lung cancer that metastasized to the brain.

CTOnews.com Note: the inspiration for PowerPoint dates back to 1984, when Robert Gaskins, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, came up with the idea.

He then joined Forethought, a Silicon Valley software company, and hired developers Dennis Austin and Tom Luther King (Tom Rudkin) to make this idea a reality and develop Presenter, the predecessor of PowerPoint. The software provides the ability to merge graphics, clip art and insert multiple fonts, and then Robert proposed to change the name to "PowerPoint".

PowerPoint 1. 0 was released on Apple Macintosh computers in 1987. At first it was only available in black and white, and a year later the full-color version went on sale. At the end of 1987, Microsoft bought Forethought and PowerPoint for $1400. The first Windows version of PowerPoint was released in 1990. To date, global users use PowerPoint to create more than 30 million presentations a day.

According to Robert's 2012 book, "sweaty bullets: PowerPoint Invention Notes," Dennis came up with at least half of the main design ideas, and the software's smooth performance and simple interface depend on him. "

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