Microsoft's new Sway tool is like PowerPoint on crack

Even if you're the rare person who enjoys putting together a PowerPoint presentation, you'll likely agree it can be tedious. You spend just as much time moving around text, photos and formatting layouts as you do on the content you're actually presenting in the slides.

But now, after 10 months of quiet testing, Microsoft rolled out a tool on Wednesday that aims to turn boring work and school presentations into ones that are more visually appealing.

Sway, which Microsoft calls a digital storytelling tool, joins its suite of Office programs and is available as a Sway app for Windows 10 to anyone with a free Microsoft account and to Office 365 for business and education customers. Read more...