Harvard Graphics

Harvard Graphics was a pioneering, award-winning presentation program developed for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Harvard Graphics, Inc. released the first version of their landmark computer program for MS-DOS in 1986 as Harvard Presentation Graphics. It was the first presentation consumer application software program to allow User (computing) to incorporate text, information graphics, and charts into custom slideshow presentations.

Although Harvard Graphics was first to market, a small company in Silicon Valley called Forethought had also been developing a presentation product for years; they released their competing product for the Apple Macintosh, Microsoft PowerPoint#History, in 1987. The next year, Microsoft purchased Forethought, and released ports of Microsoft PowerPoint for MS-DOS and Windows 2.0.

Microsoft assimilated PowerPoint into the 1990 release of their Microsoft Office Office suite for Mac OS; in turn, Harvard Graphics, Inc. ported their own software to Windows 3.x in 1991.

Harvard Graphics, PowerPoint, and (later) WordPerfect Presentations competed through the early 1990s, and Harvard Graphics gradually lost market share. In 2001, Serif Incorporated purchased exclusive marketing rights to the product line of Harvard Graphics, Inc.; Serif also assumed product support responsibilities.

=Sources=

*[http://harvardgraphics.com/about.asp About HG] - Abbreviated history of Harvard Graphics, Inc.

=See also=

*Adobe Persuasion *Bar chart *Keynote (software) *KPresenter *Lotus Freelance Graphics *MagicPoint *OpenOffice.org#Components *Pie chart *Slide projector *StarOffice *WordPerfect Office

=External links=

*[http://www.harvardgraphics.com/ harvardgraphics.com] - official website of Harvard Graphics, Inc. *[http://www.serif.com/ serif.com] - offical website of Serif Incorporated