Software:Microsoft Sway

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Short description: Web-based presentation software
Microsoft Sway
Microsoft Office Sway (2019–present).svg
Screenshot of Microsoft Office Sway website.jpg
Type of site
Presentation program
Available in
  • Basque
  • Bulgarian
  • Catalan
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Galician
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Kazakh
  • Korean
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Malay(Malaysia)
  • Norwegian (Bokmal)
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia)
  • Serbian (Latin, Serbia)
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
OwnerMicrosoft
Websitesway.office.com
CommercialNo
RegistrationRequired
Launched2014; 10 years ago (2014)
Current statusReleased
Sway for Windows 10
Initial release5 August 2015; 8 years ago (2015-08-05)
Operating systemWindows 10
Size83.07 MB
Websitewww.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/sway/9wzdncrd2g0j
Sway for iOS
Initial release8 January 2015; 9 years ago (2015-01-08)
Final release
1.20.1 / 19 July 2017; 6 years ago (2017-07-19)
Operating systemiOS
Size79.2 MB
Available in28 languages
List of languages
English, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
Websiteitunes.apple.com/app/office-sway/id929856545

Microsoft Sway is a presentation program and is part of the Microsoft 365 family of products.[1] Sway was offered for general release by Microsoft in August 2015. It allows users who have a Microsoft account to combine text and media to create a presentable website. Users can pull content locally from the device in use, or from internet sources such as Bing, Facebook, OneDrive, and YouTube.[2] Sway is distinguished from Microsoft FrontPage and Microsoft Expression Web – unrelated web design programs previously developed by Microsoft – in that Sway includes a method for hosting sites.

Sway sites are stored on Microsoft's servers and are tied to the user's Microsoft account. They can be viewed and edited from any web browser through Office on the web. There is no offline editing or viewing function, but sites can be accessed using apps for Windows 10 and iOS.[3][4]

History

Sway was developed internally by Microsoft. In late 2014, the company announced an invite-only preview version of Sway and announced that Sway would not require an Office 365 subscription.[5] An iOS app was released as a preview on 31 October 2014,[6] but was discontinued on 17 December 2018 due to low usage.[7][8]

(As of July 2021), the Sway iOS app's discontinuance in 2018 was the last piece of news posted in the Sway tech blog.[9] The Sway feature blog has not received an update since April 2017. The Microsoft Office Roadmap did not include any items related to Sway ever since. The iOS application is no longer under active development, and is not available for download.

Features

Users are able to add content from various sources into their Sway presentations. Some of the integrated services are owned by Microsoft, including OneNote, Bing, and other Sway sites. The program also provides native integration with other services, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Mixcloud, and Infogram.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Announcing Office Sway: reimagine how your ideas come to life". Microsoft. 1 October 2014. http://blogs.office.com/2014/10/01/announcing-office-sway-reimagine-ideas-come-life/. 
  2. ↑ Finga, John (1 October 2014). "Microsoft's Sway lets you share ideas on the web without any design skills". AOL. https://www.engadget.com/2014/10/01/microsoft-sway/. 
  3. ↑ Brengel, Kellogg (25 June 2015). "Sway coming to Windows 10, now on iPad, available in more countries on iPhone". WinBeta. http://www.winbeta.org/news/sway-coming-windows-10-available-more-countries-ipad-iphone. 
  4. ↑ Olivarez-Giles, Nathan (1 October 2014). "Microsoft Sway Aims to Automate Beautiful, Responsive Web Design". Dow Jones & Company. https://blogs.wsj.com/personal-technology/2014/10/01/microsoft-sway-aims-to-automate-beautiful-responsive-web-design/. 
  5. ↑ O'Toole, James (1 October 2014). "Meet Sway, Microsoft's first new Office app in a decade". Time Warner. https://money.cnn.com/2014/10/01/technology/microsoft-sway/index.html. 
  6. ↑ "Touching base on Sway Preview". Microsoft. 17 November 2014. http://blogs.office.com/2014/11/17/touching-base-sway-preview/. 
  7. ↑ Bell, Killian (22 August 2018). "Microsoft confirms plan to kill Office Sway app for iOS". Cult of Mac. https://www.cultofmac.com/571765/microsoft-office-sway-ios/. 
  8. ↑ "Sway for iOS is retiring" (in en). Microsoft. 2018-08-21. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Sway-Blog/Sway-for-iOS-is-retiring/ba-p/234490. 
  9. ↑ Mohamed, Sabrina (21 August 2018). "Sway for iOS is retiring" (in en). https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sway-blog/sway-for-ios-is-retiring/ba-p/234490. 
  10. ↑ Lopez, Napier (3 March 2015). "Microsoft's Sway Gets Better OneNote Integration and More" (in en-US). https://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/03/03/microsoft-tightens-sways-integration-with-onenote-adds-embedding-and-sharing-options/. 

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