Office Sway

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Office Sway
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"Reimagine the way your ideas come to life"
operator Microsoft
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On-line (currently preview )
https://sway.com

Sway is a presentation - Web application and part of the Microsoft Office series. Sway enables users to process text and media into a presentation.

functionality

Text and media can be inserted from the user's computer or from the Internet from sites such as Bing , Microsoft OneDrive , YouTube , and Facebook . A Sway presentation can be viewed and edited using a web browser via a web application in Microsoft Office Online or Windows 10 . The app for iOS was discontinued, an app for Android was never published despite the announcement.

A Sway presentation is stored on Microsoft's servers and linked to the Microsoft account of the creator. Since the data is not encrypted and stored on servers outside the EU , the use of the service is at least questionable in terms of data protection law . Other users only need the link for the Sway presentation to see it.

history

On October 1, 2014, a beta version of Sway was announced, to which testers were invited. The app for iOS was first released as a preview version in New Zealand on October 31, 2014. Since January 28, 2015, users have been able to incorporate embedded code from services such as SoundCloud and Vine into presentations. Sway has been publicly available since June 6, 2015. Microsoft announced that no Microsoft Office 365 subscription is required to use Sway.

On October 19, 2018, the iOS app was removed from the App Store . An app for Android was never released. Microsoft recommends that users switch to the web version of Sway.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcing Office Sway: reimagine how your ideas come to life . Microsoft . October 1, 2014. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ John Finga: Microsoft's Sway lets you share ideas on the web without any design skills . AOL . October 1, 2014. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Paul Thurrott: Microsoft is Killing Sway on iOS. In: Thurrott.com. August 22, 2018. Retrieved November 2, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ Sway FAQs - Administrator Help . ( office.com [accessed September 30, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Touching base on Sway Preview . Microsoft . November 17, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
  6. ↑ Sway feature updates — Internet embeds and more! . January 28, 2015.
  7. ↑ James O'Toole: Meet Sway, Microsoft's first new Office app in a decade . Time Warner . October 1, 2014. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  8. ↑ Martin Geuß: iOS app is being discontinued: The beginning of the end for Sway? In: DrWindows.de. August 22, 2018, accessed on November 2, 2019 (German).
  9. ^ Albert Jelica: Microsoft: Office Sway for Apple iOS is discontinued. In: WindowsArea.de. August 22, 2018, accessed on November 2, 2019 (German).