We know that Microsoft has a Windows 10 app planned for Office Sway and it appears as if its debut isn't too far away. The app is now available in the Store, though it doesn't actually work yet it seems. On opening we're greeted with the message seen in the image above.
Despite this, the Store listing does reveal to use what the new app looks like.
"Reimagine the way your ideas come to life. Sway is a digital storytelling app for work, school and home that makes it quick and easy to create and share polished, interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, and more. Add your content, and Sway will do the rest."
Sway has been absent from Windows and Windows Phone thus far despite apps appearing on the iPhone and iPad in recent times. That left the web app the only way to go for Windows users, but it looks like we're getting a nice looking app for Windows 10.
Until we can actually use it we're not able to comment on performance and features, but from the screenshots alone it looks like its nicely done. Check them out in the gallery below.
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Office Sway app for Windows 10 revealed in the Store
I want Photosynth back.
When its going on come? Any idea...
You mean to say "when in India?" LOL
Make for Apple first =))
Exactly!
Opens the store. Types Sway. Nothing.
?????
Clicks link above. Done. Are MS really trying here?
Feels like tumblr, but more elegant.
Its totally weird that all our newest apps have to go to iPhone and android first before windows, its a shame
App is no longer available? Link doesn't work for me (page not found) and can't find it in the store either.
And yet 90% of the population still doesn't really understand what this app does, where it keeps its data, how the data is used, and what purpose it serves.
Seems like OneNote 2.0. Going to be forgotten before it's ever known by the average computer user.
90% don't know how to make a presentation. From those who know uses PowerPoint. I was disappointed with PowerPoint and used prezi for some time but then I see ppt would be great with office 16. Sway is good but still it needs to be offline for many reasons even though ppl always tend to be online.
Looks like a half baked web app.
Looks more like they just made a web app. A 60+ MB web app. The interface in the screenshots is identical tothe web version.
Needs more features
This is different to Delve how?
There's a listing for a app, but it's not ready yet? How Sway? How?
What about the clipboard app that was shown and hidden again a couple months back?? I wonder when we will see that released?
The Groove Music app changed its logo on the Windows Store!
Universal Windows App in development? I mean: It has been out for a while in iOS, any sense of Windows Phone too?
Yeah, Windows 10 Mobile app will be coming later
Hey look, another way to share my photos! This is definitely better than Facebook/ Flickr/ Twitter/ Instagram/ Pintrest/ Vine/ Gphotos/ Socl/ etc etc etc PLEASE GOD LET IT END!
...it's funny how we as a society get so protective about our privacy, then go out of our way to share our most intimate details with anyone who will listen.
Um...thats not at all what Sway is...
...basically the bastard child of Vine and PowerPoint. As noble as your intents may be, at the end of the day it'll still be used more often than not for vacation montages and BFF celebrations with Mariah Carey backing tracks.
Says you. The same can be said about PowerPoint, Prezi, powtoon, and any other similar application. The point is, it is not a social networking app like you're comparing it to. That's not how it's being marketed and not necessarily how Microsoft fully intended it to be used.
As a professor I use Sway to convert PowerPoint presentations into more web friendly formats. My PowerPoint style is very text sparse, so Sway allows me to organize the work and annotate the material.
It's not really being marketed at all. I still barely know anything baout the service and the web sites are raving on with very little content, and even less usable information about the service/app itself.
Its like PowerPoint on crack. Look up prezi presentations (or even sway presentations) and you'll see what it's all about
Vine is an autistic thing, at least this is primarily for productivity reasons.
Children ruin things though. This is nothing new.
Would be great if you guys made a tutorial or presentation of the app in a video in "spare" time if ever :) May be helpful.
yeah i wish too!
When it's out we'll definitely do something with it.
Right now, you can't use it.
Sounds great. Thanks :).
This has been there for weeks. If you click the Get Office app, it takes you to the link to the Sway page. I tried to download it, but kept getting errors.
So why didn't you tip us?!
Here's a tip: pay me next time! /s
Tbh though, I didn't think it was worth the mention. I assumed you already wrote something about it.
This is one of the features we really need in Store app, a date showing the last day an app was updated or published.
Feedback app is your friend. The more people say the want the feature, the higher the probability of having it included.
Unless its placeholders for onedrive...
I thought I was the only one who noticed this has been there for a while.
I did one sway. If I need another I'll try the app.
screenshots alone it looks like its nicely done? :P you know, background and test, it looks like nothing to me, if has a nice backrgound and nice green so it might look good on release (even if features aren't impressive)
USA Today & VBA8 also released its Windows 10 app.
Seems Swaynkier
I don't have the patience to make you feel bad right now.
^Seems grumpier...
Just having a bit of fun. I think this is the first time I was ever the first to post.
Seems patiencelessier
Off topic - Don't forget that Microsoft "meme" characters are .png so you can perfectly pin them to your Start screen with #TileArt app :).
Emphasize?
@Richard Indy:
Does anyone really care anymore?!
I'm really fed up with Microsoft treating Windows users as second grade delivering stuff years later than on competing platforms.
Seems like your mother likes to sit on my dick and spin
How old are you again?