Last Sunday I was creating a presentation in PowerPoint that required narration and I wanted it embedded in the file. I had been assured by a couple IT types that PowerPoint had a narration function that would easily allow me to create the presentation and post it to YouTube for distribution.

The short version to this saga is I spent about 12 hours fiddling around in PowerPoint. The program, like it’s mother, was inflexible, limited and does not want to play nicely with YouTube. I decided to turn off my machine and try again on Monday, when my energy was renewed.

As dawn broke on Monday, I had an epiphany. I decided to see if Apple’s presentation program, Keynote, would work better. No surprise, less than two hours later I had made significant improvements to the presentation and posted it on YouTube, with one-click.

Someday Microsoft's desktop domination will end. That will be a joyous day for all the Marketers who hate crappy products.