Guy Kawasaki on PowerPoint

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Today, Guy Kawasaki came to speak at Microsoft.

One of the points that amused me the most was his idea that we should sell, and charge more for, a PowerPoint Pro version. That PowerPoint Pro should limit you to 10 slides, and never allow you to use a font smaller than 30.

While I fundamentally think that such an idea doesn't make sense for the general use of PowerPoint, I do think he's right about certain kinds of presentations. There are definitely presentations that could benefit from having no more than 10 slides, and there are definitely presentations that try to cram way too much information onto a single slide.

(For more about Guy's talk here, you can check out my Twitter page.)