It seems as though everyone is getting ready for the Apple Watch launch, including Microsoft. Today, Microsoft released a new update to the iOS edition of PowerPoint. The update incorporates input ...

Microsoft quietly launched a new Android app that lets you control Powerpoint presentations on your PC over Bluetooth. With the free powerpoint remote app, dubbed Office Remote, you can control ...

In the age of remote work, a smart ring for productivity such as the Genki Wave seems like a clever idea. Instead of making you search for the right keyboard shortcuts to unmute yourself on Zoom or ...

Powerpoint presentations. Not once in the history of humanity has someone said “Oh man, I LOVE giving Powerpoint presentations” non-sarcastically. Really, I looked it up. Presefy, a four-man team out ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio, ...

Here is the changelog so you can try to make sense of it yourself: PowerPoint Remote for Apple Watch: control your slide show on iPhone with a beautifully simple app. Start your slide show and easily ...

Microsoft Research has just released an app for Windows Phone called Office Remote. Its function is entirely in the name of the app. Office Remote gives you power over desktop applications in the ...

Reader Paul would like to expand the native capabilities of his Apple Remote Control. He writes: I recently ordered a MacBook and, as you may know, this comes with Front Row and a remote control. Do ...

Microsoft's new Cameo feature aims to help make remote meetings as effective as in-person ones with the move to the hybrid workforce. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is ...

For anyone that has begrudgingly sat through a PowerPoint presentation against your will (that should be all of us), the act can be just as much of a downer for the person doing the presenting as it ...

The lack of a simple, convenient way to steer PowerPoint presentations arguably birthed an entire industry of PowerPoint remotes. Now, Microsoft has gravely wounded it with a single app. Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft has today updated the iOS version of Powerpoint to allow you to use your Apple Watch as a remote, to start presentations, navigate to the next slide and track your progress by viewing ...