Office 2010 Through the Eyes of a PowerPoint MVP

By: Troy Chollar, PowerPoint MVP My company, TLC Creative Services,Office Enterprise 2007, is busy,Windows 7 Key, especially at the beginning of the year with clients ramping up 2010 marketing campaigns, corporate meetings and new marketing materials. So what is it about the MVP Summit that pulls me away from my office for an entire week during this profitable time? I have been a part of the Microsoft MVP program since 2004. The festivities, dinners and keynote talks at every Microsoft summit are top notch, but my work developing and coordinating executive presentations at live events has me at dozens of large corporate events each year, so I am not attending for the venue or food. For me, the MVP Summit encompasses the most valuable aspect of the entire program – direct interaction between the PowerPoint developer team and the MVPs. The open dialog into the finer points of the application’s use, discussions of real-world examples, and “pain-points” that might not be envisioned by the developers is the true draw. I value the development team as a whole in soliciting ideas, criticism and praise from a group outside Microsoft. Seeing familiar faces of many Program Managers from year-to-year is reassuring, and gives me confidence that PowerPoint will have continued long-term consistency in its development.   PowerPoint MVPs at the 2010 MVP Summit
Shyam Pillai, Echo Swinford, Steve Rindsberg,Office 2010 Product Key, Sandy Yu, Geetesh Bajaj, Pia Bork, Kathy Jacobs Sandra Johnson, Troy Chollar, Sang Eun Lee, Seok Jin Woo, Yong-Jun Park, Sin-Woo Kim The 2010 MVP Summit was unique. First, the entire event was hosted at the Microsoft campus and in Bellevue (vs. downtown Seattle). Second, with Office 2010 completed and set to be released in just a few months there were fewer sessions on it (not a lot of end user experience with unreleased software yet). Actually, the Program Managers have already shifted focus to the next release of PowerPoint, and that version is going to equally exciting with (beep – NDA content) and the development team prioritizing (beep – NDA content) – well, you get the idea. PowerPoint 2010 is a huge leap forward in so many ways. I have not been this excited about PowerPoint since the release of PowerPoint XP. During the month of November on my blog, ThePowerPointBlog.com, I highlighted my “Top 15” favorite new features based on working with a pre-beta version (the final version has even more to offer!). My quick list includes great multimedia and slide transition capabilities, improved image editing, improved interface/ribbon and fantastic slide show performance. PowerPoint 2010 is a game changer for my company and has already been used for high profile presentations such as Olympic press events in Vancouver (specifically for the embedded video and rendering engine for dynamically animated segments).   PowerPoint MVPs together at one of the MVP Summit events
Ric Bretschneider, Steve Rindsberg, Echo Swinford,Windows 7 Ultimate Key, Sandra Johnson, Geetesh Bajaj, Sandy Yu, Troy Chollar Spending time and networking with the other PowerPoint MVPs,Windows 7 Home Premium, who are now all wonderful friends, makes the MVP Summit one of the most important business events of the year for me. Of note, there are approximately 35 MVPs for PowerPoint and the majority are outside the United States. The MVP summit is one of the few events where we gather. It provides a great opportunity to network, catch up, and see and hear about PowerPoint use in other regions, such as India, Korea, Germany and the Midwest. And, while for me the summit is not about the executive keynotes, venue, or food - I admit we had some great dinners together! Troy Chollar
A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
TLC Creative Services, Inc.
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