Dennis Austin, together with Robert Gaskins, created the PowerPoint software for the company Forethought. It launched in April 1987. Microsoft bought the rights to the app just a few months later.

Dennis Austin has died. He was the co-creator and primary software developer for Microsoft’s PowerPoint for over 10 years until his retirement in 1996.

Dennis Robert Austin was born in Pittsburgh on May 28, 1947, and grew up in the suburb of Rosslyn Farms. His father ran an association for executives, and his mother was a typist and later a ...