The author has many, many free alternatives.
LibreOffice. OnlyOffice. Collabora Office. Keynote.
While it is scummy that MS did this, the author needs to grow a pair and look up the millions of ways to open a .pptx.
LibreOffice. OnlyOffice. Collabora Office. Keynote.
While it is scummy that MS did this, the author needs to grow a pair and look up the millions of ways to open a .pptx.
Note that I did not say create a presentation. I said open a presentation.
The document in particular has a load of animations, videos, and "rich" powerpoint resources that have been carefully and purposefully designed to be difficult to interop with other software.
Remember?
"One thing we have got to change in our strategy – allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other people's browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company."
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