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• November 13, 2001 •
Microsoft's Bill Gates this week announced the availability of Microsoft® Producer for PowerPoint® 2002 in his keynote address at COMDEX Fall 2001. Microsoft Producer, an add-on for PowerPoint 2002 in Office XP, makes it easy for everyday business users and media professionals to create engaging rich-media presentations by synchronizing audio, video, slides and images. These rich-media presentations can be viewed on demand in a browser across the Internet or an intranet.
"Businesses around the world are looking for new, more effective ways to communicate both internally and externally," said Jeff Raikes, group vice president of the Business Productivity Group at Microsoft. "Microsoft Producer will do the same thing for digital media that FrontPage did for Web authoring: -- Make it easier and more ubiquitous in company wide communication."
Microsoft Producer helps media and marketing professionals, training specialists and business users of all kinds to create engaging external and internal digital media marketing communication, online training, on-demand executive broadcasts, and published archives of live presentations. These can be quickly published with the click of a button to intranet sites, the Internet or onto CD. Microsoft Producer offers the following capabilities:
The final release of Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint 2002 is an add-on tool for users of Office XP. It is available for download (22.8MB) at no additional charge for users of Office XP at the Microsoft Office Web site. Microsoft Producer is available in English today, and is scheduled to be available in December in French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.
More information about Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint 2002 can be found on the Microsoft Office Web site.
