Now Microsoft PowerPoint for the web can add videos with closed captions

PowerPoint for the web now lets users insert videos with closed captions and subtitles into presentations, reports Windows Central. It should make presentations created in the Microsoft 365 suite more accessible to Deaf people or those hard of hearing, but the feature also offers other benefits. You can add closed captions in multiple languages, allowing … Read more

Microsoft announces new AI features for Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft CNBC Microsoft on Wednesday announced a slew of new capabilities coming to the Copilot artificial intelligence add-on for its Microsoft 365 productivity applications. In the year since Microsoft-backed OpenAI introduced the popular ChatGPT virtual assistant, companies have expressed interest in how AI might make their workers more efficient, and several … Read more

Dennis Austin, software program developer who created PowerPoint, dies at 76

Dennis Austin, who performed a seminal function in shaping how info is communicated in fashionable society because the principal software program developer of PowerPoint, the ever-present and sometimes scorned program employed by workplace employees, lecturers and bureaucrats, died Sept. 1 at his dwelling in Los Altos, Calif. He was 76. The trigger was lung most … Read more