It’s Hard to Believe This is PowerPoint

Sensing a need to step up their game, Microsoft got it right when committing to revolutionizing the manner in which graphics are rendered in PowerPoint. In their own words, “For PowerPoint 2010, we are making the biggest visual update to Slide Show in nearly a decade. PowerPoint’s graphics engine is completely rebuilt using DirectX. Everything in slide show (text, shapes, animations, and more) is rendered in full 3D using your machine’s graphics card.” Source here.

Smooth, no?

Also, I tweeted some days ago that Nancy Duarte’s “5 Simple Rules” would be included in public beta of PPT 2010. This trailer above serves to whet the appetite.

Via @eyefulpres and Long Zheng, but here is Sandy Yu’s official post of the same.