Microsoft Sway

Microsoft Sway is a presentation program and is part of the Microsoft 365 family of products.^[1] 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.^[2] Sway is distinguished from Microsoft FrontPage and Microsoft Expression Web – unrelated web design programs previously developed by Microsoft – in that Sway includes a method for hosting sites.

Microsoft Sway

Type of site	Presentation program
Available in	39 languages
List of languages 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
Owner	Microsoft
URL	sway.cloud.microsoft
IPv6 support	Yes
Commercial	No
Registration	Required
Launched	2014; 11 years ago (2014)
Current status	Released

Sway for Windows 10

Initial release	5 August 2015; 9 years ago (2015-08-05)
Operating system	Windows 10
Size	83.07 MB
Website	apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrd2g0j

Sway for iOS

Initial release	8 January 2015; 10 years ago (2015-01-08)
Final release	1.20.1 / 19 July 2017; 7 years ago (2017-07-19)
Operating system	iOS
Size	79.2 MB
Available in	28 languages
List of languages 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	itunes.apple.com/app/office-sway/id929856545

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.^[3][4]

History

Sway was developed internally by Microsoft. In late 2014, the company announced an invite-only preview version of Sway and announced that Sway would not require an Office 365 subscription.^[5] An iOS app was released as a preview on 31 October 2014,^[6] but was discontinued on 17 December 2018 due to low usage.^[7][8]

As of July 17, 2021^[update], the Sway iOS app's discontinuance in 2018 was the last piece of news posted in the Sway tech blog.^[9] The Sway feature blog has not received an update since April 2017. The Microsoft Office Roadmap did not include any items related to Sway ever since. The iOS application is no longer under active development, and is not available for download.

Features

Users are able to add content from various sources into their Sway presentations. Some of the integrated services are owned by Microsoft, including OneNote, Bing, and other Sway sites. The program also provides native integration with other services, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Mixcloud, and Infogram.^[10]