Sway users create presentations, called “Sways”, from various text and graphics sources.
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Instead of piling every button under the sun along the top of the screen, Sway curates buttons as a user progresses through the build. When’s the last time you’ve wanted to bullet point or number a headline?
You can also embed content from places like YouTube, Soundcloud, or many other sources, directly within Sway, and make it part of your presentation.
Join us at GrowthBeat where thought leaders from the biggest brands will share winning growth strategies on August 17-18 in San Francisco. Sway automatically handles setting up slide layouts and transitions, smartly rearranging them to match different form factors. Some of those veterans might even turn to it sometimes – being cloud based, individual presentations can be shared with others using links or social media, allowing them to interact with embedded material like maps, tweets, or videos.
Even if you do think you need the app, don’t buy it. The first code release is available on GitHub right now, published under the liberal MIT license.
Share your thoughts in there comments section below. That’s how Docs.com was born.
Microsoft is certainly encouraging participation of coders in the project. That service has been temporarily moved to fb.docs.com though Alexander told VentureBeat that “it’s going way”. It means Microsoft has finally gotten around to creating an alternative for its extremely complicated (for some) Office PowerPoint.
The description of the app does not say much about its DVD-playing capabilities, but it says it “makes it easy to watch your favorite DVDs” including both “commercial and homemade discs in the DVD-Video format”.
Any Sway, document, collection, or profile can be discovered by search engines.
“Your invaluable feedback has helped us improve Sway to meet your needs, from adding fundamentals like multi-user collaboration, to the very “Sway” way we addressed photo cropping”. Just like during the preview, the Office application is free. Microsoft added integration with OneNote in March. It’s also available for iOS, and can be accessed by any Office 365 subscriber. While the Web version would need a constant Internet connection, the Windows 10 version can be used offline as well. Sway does not have any extra features, so does not require any extra charges.
Earlier today Microsoft released an early look at the Windows Bridge for iOS (previously known as “Project Islandwood”).
Before getting started, ensure that you’re signed into your machine with a verified Windows Live account, and that you have your Android or iOS device handy. Android developers will be able to submit versions of their apps, written in Java or C++, to the Windows Store in he form of APKs and have those apps work on Windows Phone 10 devices, Microsoft officials have said.
Sway is now out for Windows 10, in the App Store.
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The most obvious platform that is missing at launch is Google’s mobile operating system.
