Microsoft Sway

{{short description|Web-based presentation software}}

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{{Infobox website

| name = Microsoft Sway

| logo = Microsoft Office Sway (2019–present).svg

| logo_size = 64px

| screenshot = Screenshot of Microsoft Office Sway website.jpg

| commercial = No

| type = Presentation program

| registration = Required

| language_count = 39

| language = {{flatlist|

• 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

}}

| num_users =

| content_license =

| programming_language =

| owner = Microsoft

| editor =

| launch_date = {{start date and age|2014||}}

| current_status = Released

| url = {{URL|sway.cloud.microsoft}}

| ipv6 = Yes

}}

{{Infobox software

| name = Sway for Windows 10

| released = {{Start date and age|df=yes|2015|08|05}}

| operating system = Windows 10

| size = 83.07 MB

| website = {{URL|https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrd2g0j}}

}}

{{Infobox software

| name = Sway for iOS

| released = {{release date and age|df=yes|2015|1|8}}

| discontinued = yes

| latest release version = 1.20.1

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|df=yes|2017|7|19}}

| size = 79.2 MB

| operating system = iOS

| language count = 28

| language = 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

| website = {{URL|https://itunes.apple.com/app/office-sway/id929856545}}

}}

Microsoft Sway is a presentation program and is part of the Microsoft 365 family of products.{{Cite web|url = http://blogs.office.com/2014/10/01/announcing-office-sway-reimagine-ideas-come-life/|title = Announcing Office Sway: reimagine how your ideas come to life|date = 1 October 2014|access-date = 26 March 2017|website = Office Blogs|publisher = Microsoft}} 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.{{Cite web|url = https://www.engadget.com/2014/10/01/microsoft-sway/|title = Microsoft's Sway lets you share ideas on the web without any design skills|date = 1 October 2014|access-date = 1 October 2014|website = Engadget|publisher = AOL|last = Finga|first = John}} Sway is distinguished from Microsoft FrontPage and Microsoft Expression Web{{snd}} unrelated web design programs previously developed by Microsoft{{snd}} 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 the app for Windows, and formerly iOS.{{Cite news|url = http://www.winbeta.org/news/sway-coming-windows-10-available-more-countries-ipad-iphone|title = Sway coming to Windows 10, now on iPad, available in more countries on iPhone|last = Brengel|first = Kellogg|date = 25 June 2015|publisher = WinBeta}}{{Cite web|url = https://blogs.wsj.com/personal-technology/2014/10/01/microsoft-sway-aims-to-automate-beautiful-responsive-web-design/|title = Microsoft Sway Aims to Automate Beautiful, Responsive Web Design|date = 1 October 2014|access-date = 1 October 2014|website = The Wall Street Journal|publisher = Dow Jones & Company|last = Olivarez-Giles|first = Nathan}}