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==External links== ==External links==
* - official ] of Harvard Graphics, Inc. *
* - offical website of Serif Incorporated *




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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 users 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, PowerPoint 1.0, in 1987. The next year, Microsoft purchased Forethought, and released ports of PowerPoint for MS-DOS and Windows 2.0.

Microsoft assimilated PowerPoint into the 1990 release of their Office suite for Mac OS; in turn, Harvard Graphics, Inc. ported their own software to Microsoft Windows 3.0 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., and assumed product support responsibilities.

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  • About HG - Abbreviated history of Harvard Graphics, Inc.

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