Microsoft
issued a warning about a PowerPoint virus on Thursday. Apparently, this virus can infect every system in a corporation, bringing productive work to a halt and generating gigabites of cheesy slide shows with goofy bar graphs and trite dissolve transitions.
The unfortunate problem with this is that nobody can tell the infected files from the real thing.
ReplyDelete"Apparently, this virus can infect every system in a corporation, bringing productive work to a halt and generating gigabites of cheesy slide shows with goofy bar graphs and trite dissolve transitions."
ReplyDeleteThat isn't the virus... that is the main purpose of PowerPoint.... to take a complex series of business problems and reduce them to some meaningless 3 color graphs... So everyone - the LEAST common demonenator - can sound like they understand the issue. And after a week's worth of meetings, management will convene a task force to produce a straw-man to divise a strategy, to ....
Sorry I had flash-back to working in Corp. America.