Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is an app for making, editing and showing slide presentations with text, pictures, audio and video. It’s made by Microsoft, based in the United States.
What it is
PowerPoint is part of Microsoft Office. People use it for school projects, work presentations and family slideshows. It can save presentations on the Mac or in OneDrive, where other people can help edit them.
It reads the presentations and media you open or insert. Recording features use your microphone for narration and your camera for presenter video. Cloud features connect to Microsoft for sign-in, shared files, templates and other services.
It is an official Microsoft app available through Microsoft and the Mac App Store. Microsoft publishes security updates for it. The Mac App Store version requires a qualifying Microsoft 365 subscription.
Who makes it
Microsoft is a publicly traded technology company founded in 1975 and based in Redmond, Washington. Its legal name is Microsoft Corporation. Its website is microsoft.com.
Microsoft makes other software with flaws that attackers have used. Its page in Companies lists them.
Is it the real one?
Every Mac app carries a signature from the developer who made it. Apple checks who the developer is before handing out the certificate, and macOS refuses to open an app whose signature has been tampered with.
HARD hasn’t yet recorded the signature on a real copy of Microsoft PowerPoint. Its Mac app shows who signed the copy you have.
Its bundle ID, the name macOS knows it by, is com.microsoft.Powerpoint or com.microsoft.PowerPoint. Download it only from microsoft.com or the Mac App Store, not from an ad or a link someone sends you.
What it connects to
In normal use, Microsoft PowerPoint talks to these places on the internet. A firewall that asks before apps connect, like the one in HARD’s Mac app, will show them.
| Address | Why |
|---|---|
login.live.com | Personal Microsoft account sign-in. |
login.microsoftonline.com | Work or school account sign-in. |
officeclient.microsoft.com | Office service configuration. |
templateservice.office.com | Online presentation templates. |
pptsgs.officeapps.live.com | PowerPoint Designer suggestions. |
roaming.officeapps.live.com | Recently used document list. |
res.public.onecdn.static.microsoft | Update checks and downloads. |
otelrules.svc.static.microsoft | Rules for diagnostic data collection. |
What it can see
macOS asks you before an app can use these. You can change them any time in System Settings → Privacy & Security.
| Permission | What it’s for |
|---|---|
| Camera | Show your camera feed on slides and record presenter video. |
| Microphone | Record narration and other audio for presentations. |
Security record
Problems with Microsoft PowerPoint or Microsoft in the last three years, newest first. Keeping the app up to date covers the ones that were fixed.
| When | What happened | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft fixed a flaw that could let an attacker run code through PowerPoint, CVE-2026-70215, in Mac version 16.114. | ↗ | |
| Cisco Talos disclosed CVE-2024-39804, which let a malicious Mac app reuse PowerPoint’s permissions; PowerPoint remained unpatched at disclosure. | ↗ | |
| Microsoft reported that Midnight Blizzard had stolen corporate emails and accessed some source code repositories and internal systems, with investigation and mitigation still ongoing. | ↗ |
References
- Microsoft PowerPoint — Mac App Store apps.apple.com
- Microsoft PowerPoint — official product and download page microsoft.com
- Facts About Microsoft news.microsoft.com
- Cisco Talos: Microsoft PowerPoint for macOS library injection vulnerability, including signed app identifier talosintelligence.com
- MOFA: Mac App Store bundle identifiers mofa.cocolabs.dev
- IOSPIRIT: PowerPoint bundle identifier in older Mac versions iospirit.com
- Record your presentation support.microsoft.com
- Presenting with cameo support.microsoft.com
- Update Office for Mac automatically support.microsoft.com
- Network requests in Office for Mac learn.microsoft.com
- Release notes for Office for Mac learn.microsoft.com
- Microsoft's CVE-2026-70215 record raw.githubusercontent.com
- Cisco Talos: Microsoft Mac apps and permission theft blog.talosintelligence.com
- Update on Microsoft Actions Following Attack by Nation State Actor Midnight Blizzard microsoft.com