Sounds like I need to have a meeting with my attorney: http://buildsway.com/
Unless you're King.com with the money to trademark a word like "Candy" you're not going to have much luck against MS with a 4 letter dictionary word.
Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft
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Re: Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft
#82Whoa; So we've been working on our start-up, https://qwilr.com - for the better part of a year; with the notion of "Documents For The Web" as our guiding principle from day-dot. Is this competition? I can't really tell.
Your product look useful and I might try it soon.
However, there seems to be an issue on that page: on Win8.1 x64 and Firefox 32.0.3 I get constant CPU of between 25-60% when it's loaded (I'm on a i7 Haswell CPU with 6GB RAM, and I see my RAM usage creeping up by about 1kB every couple seconds as well).
On Chrome 37.0.2062.124, I see the RAM usage creeping up in the same way, but CPU is low.
Re: Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft
#83Some 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…
Nice post,
> that managers could review offline
web pages can be viewed offline
Re: Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft
#841. Interesting that they showed an Apple logo on the back of the iPad (it would be hard to hide that it was an iPad), but no evidence whatsoever of any Microsoft mobile device (does a laptop count?) 2. I kinda want that umbrella.
To me, the message of the octopus umbrella unfolding against the sea of ordinary black umbrellas was a metaphor for the product itself.
That is: use this stylish and creative alternative to the boring uniformity of corporate presentation software.
Re: Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft
#85Some 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…
Nice post, > that managers could review offline web pages can be viewed offline
Not easily. Not by your average user.
Re: Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft
#86Some 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…
Nice post, > that managers could review offline web pages can be viewed offline
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 awesome, of course, for the web. However it's relatively rare when a busy exec will have time to use non PPT based deck.
Re: Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft
#87Did anyone observed there were no bullet points in these presentations?
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice post, > that managers could review offline web pages can be viewed offline
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 bank!
Re: Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft
#89Blogging and publishing platform.
Re: Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft
#90Epic fail like Encarta, monolithic, proprietary and ugly.