Seth Godin calls bullshit on one of the major Microsoft menaces. "Almost every PowerPoint presentation sucks rotten eggs," he says, because it is built with a bias toward non-communicative usage. And sadly that is mostly how it is used--to fail to communicate. Don't help Microsoft help you be lazy and ineffective. Do you really want to bore people and fail to communicate with them? Read Seth's tips for creating and delivering righteous PowerPoint presentations. (Also of note is the Edward Tufte classic, The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within.)