It shipped on two floppy disks, one with the program and the other with sample files.
Released on Apas Presenter and renamed later that year due to trademark issues, PowerPoint 1 is a 1-bit black-and-white only program that works on all System versions up through 6.0.x. PowerPoint 97 and 98 gave PowerPoint nonlinear capabilities, includes Visual Basic for Applications, and gains transitions and effects. Prior to PowerPoint 97 for Windows and 98 for Mac, presentations were completely linear, moving lockstep from one slide to the next. The first Windows version, PowerPoint 2.0, was launched with the first version of Microsoft Office on May 22, 1990, which was also the release date of Windows 3.0. Microsoft acquired Forethought in 1987 and renamed the app PowerPoint. Microsoft PowerPoint began its life as Presenter and was published for exclusively Macintosh by Forethought, Inc.
