You can put a ‘touch interface’ on PowerPoint, but they are still a huge company balancing strategic and financial objectives that get in the way of innovation.

What's missing in PowerPoint for iPad

Sharing Defaults to Files

Sharing in PowerPoint for iPad encourages the old, outdated way of sending attachments instead of how a modern application works.

No Snapping Guides

In PowerPoint, you can move any object anywhere, but there aren’t guides to line things up, with snapping enabled or not.

No Graphs

Hard to believe a PowerPoint app without support to create graphs.

No Social Integration

You can’t post to Facebook, Twitter or any web site from within Powerpoint. 

No Innovation, Nothing New

PowerPoint is the most used presentation software in the world. With their new iPad app, they didn’t move the ball forward or introduce any real innovation. You can put a ‘touch interface’ on PowerPoint, but they are still a huge company balancing strategic and financial objectives that get in the way of innovation.