Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft

Post by coldtea » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 6:01 PM UTC

o0-0o wrote: post #88

kgu87 wrote: post #86

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Agree, nice post. Two of the major challenges displacing PPT with interactive tools, particularly in consulting, market research type of business, where large 100+ slide decks are common, are going to be the (1) need to produce decks on clients' templates and (2) need to email decks. The direction in which a few emerging CSS/JS based tools (slides, reveal, etc) are going will not solve that problem. D3/WebGL etc. are…

I agree with your sentiment about email, and wanted to add that the major reason for this is still a fear of lack of Internet. There has never been a meeting I've attended in ~20 years where we didn't have a backup plan if we had no Internet. This still looks like a solutions that needs the Internet to work. MS would do well to make these formats offline and open-able with the next version of PPT. Take that to the ba…

Post by tarblog » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 6:29 PM UTC

Too wrote: post #132

Huh, https://sway.com/fabrikam is just a simple static website but with nice typography and a broken scrollbar.

Post by soyiuz » Fri, Oct 03, 2014, 12:30 AM UTC

bentcorner wrote: post #102

jasode wrote: post #56

Some comments here express some head scratching on what exactly Sway is. I only saw the demo video like everyone else so I don't claim to know definitively but here's my take on where Sway fits. It looks like we're in a general upward trend of richer interactive documents created by average users . Some observations of the zeitgiest that look unrelated on the surface but nevertheless, seems to point towards a common…

I'm personally looking into iPython - it seems like a useful tool for interactive presentations. For example: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/plotly/python-user-guide/...

Post by torom » Fri, Oct 03, 2014, 5:11 AM UTC

jasode wrote: post #56

Some comments here express some head scratching on what exactly Sway is. I only saw the demo video like everyone else so I don't claim to know definitively but here's my take on where Sway fits. It looks like we're in a general upward trend of richer interactive documents created by average users . Some observations of the zeitgiest that look unrelated on the surface but nevertheless, seems to point towards a common…

Post by JoblessWonder » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 8:36 PM UTC

OrwellianChild wrote: post #21

Impressive for a number of reasons, many of which relate to the presentation/promotion of a Microsoft product: - Not a single Microsoft reference in the entire landing page - Broad use of Apple iPhone and iPad devices alongside normal PCs with no special acknowledgement - Product focus on readability/usability across many platforms, OS/device-independent - Broad integration of sharing hooks across Google, Twitter, FB…