White is the New Blue: What do GE, Cisco, Apple and HP have in common? If you drew a blank, that's exactly the right answer. That's because they're among a group of visionary companies that have chosen white as the background color of their corporate PowerPoint template.

A while back I got a bit of criticism for my plain, white slides. I tried a more colorful approach for a few lectures, but eventually abandonned it to return to black-on-while.