Talk:Microsoft Sway

Latest comment: 4 years ago by 2A02:C7D:597B:7400:2504:9F15:EBFD:FD6B in topic presentable website

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 01:26, 14 October 2014 (UTC)Reply


Sway (Office app)Microsoft Sway – This product will have Windows and mobile version, I believe this is part of the Microsoft Office product line. Therefore, the naming should follow the general naming rules of Microsoft Office. Ref: http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-adds-multimedia-presentation-software-sway-office-family Asiaworldcity (talk) 17:37, 6 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Nowhere in the source does it state that the app is called or will be called Microsoft Sway. Do we name everything in office product line Microsoft .... automatically or do we do so because all of the previous products in the line happened to include Microsoft in the title? If it is the latter we should not rename since that would mean the fact that they were part of the office line was not the reason for the use of Microsoft in the title.--76.65.42.142 (talk) 17:52, 6 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
  • Ha ha ha!   Tell that to Microsoft; they need to work on their naming scheme. They seriously do.
But per WP:NPOV, we can't make up names just because they are natural. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 00:51, 8 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Stronger support per Wall Street Journal. User:Codename Lisa please strike that "we can't make up names" comment as misleading. We follow reliable sources, the Wall Street Journal is a reliable source. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:36, 8 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
We don't have a policy called "Wall Street Journal". I am pretty sure Wall Street Journal has a policy called "make up names when brings more revenue in". And our policy is called WP:GEVAL, which says not to cover every extraordinary claim. Fleet Command (talk) 20:19, 8 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Wall Street Journal is wrong. Maybe it is wrong in good faith but Microsoft is the only reliable source for the name; not anyone else. All names are like that: They are the respective properties of their owners; trademarks have legal backing for this. Codename Lisa (talk) 17:10, 9 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
  • Oppose: Though some media outlets have referred to it as Microsoft Sway, that doesn't make it the correct name to use. Microsoft has only referred to it as Sway or Office Sway. Perhaps we could move it to Office Sway. -heat_fan1 (talk) 16:04, 8 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
  • Support But not with the name Microsoft Sway but use the one Office Sway as that is the one Microsoft officially uses on the Facebook and other social media, also when you go to the website the title states "Office Sway - Create and share amazing stories, presentations, and more" (yes, they use an Oxford comma), also Microsoft has added Office behind the names of many other applications, Microsoft Word is officially known as Office Word too. --86.81.201.94 (talk) 16:23, 8 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Also I won't rename my support to oppose for the following reasons, I oppose anything Codename Lisa supports as Sway works more than merely a website (and how it was described about renaming Windows Live schemes), the renaming issue is not about adding Microsoft to the name but about using a more appropriate name, by using (office app) we already make it stand out from other Office services which do not use it on Wikipedia. Still Microsoft officially uses Office Sway on multiple occasions. https://www.facebook.com/OfficeSway and https://twitter.com/sway both read Office Sway So as usual C.L. is wrong, and we can use the official Microsoft naming scheme. . --86.81.201.94 (talk) 16:32, 8 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
So, basically, you do oppose, but you write "Support" instead because you want to get back at this Lisa girl over some Oxford comma dispute? 86.57.62.235 (talk) 16:06, 9 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Inaccurate summary

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The first paragraph calls it a presentation web app, which seems pretty inacurate to me. it is not a presentation app as described by the linked article (an application for creating slides), it doesn't even appear to be targetet at speaker presentations at all. also, while it's currently a web application only, and this should be noted in the article, it's not meant to be a web-only application, so characterizing it as a web app in the first paragraph seems a bad choice to me. I'd suggest 'an application for easily creating content using predefined templates'. Some media present it as a successor to powerpoint, but MS does not claim it to be, and it doesn't seem to be substantiated anywhere. Also, it's obvious that it is not. Motherofinvention (talk) 10:20, 18 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Infobox

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All the information in the infobox code is not appearing on the page. I would love if someone could fix it (or tell me how to fix it).

Thanks! Daylen (talk) 02:55, 6 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hi, Daylen. There is no fix. {{Infobox website}} does not implement these fields. Well, isn't that exactly why we use infoboxes? Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 05:03, 6 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Wrong name

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According to the official blog, Twitter, the Facebook, and the official iPhone app it's called Office Sway, not regular sway. I suggest an immediate move. --42.113.73.178 (talk) 07:30, 10 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

Inaccurate summary

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The article should make clear that the "App"/program is only available to those who have a Microsoft Account. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GaryGMason (talkcontribs) 17:23, 30 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

Requested move 15 March 2016

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The result of the move request was: Move. No objections after over a week. Cúchullain t/c 14:47, 23 March 2016 (UTC)Reply


Sway (Office app)Office Sway – According to the software's official website, the official blog, Twitter, official Facebook page, and the official iPhone app it's proper name is Office Sway. The new title also fulfils WP:NATURALDIS and removes the need for parenthesised disambiguation in the article title. The name as just "Sway" is used as a shortened form of its name, similar to how Microsoft Word becomes just "Word", or Microsoft Excel becomes just "Excel", etc. – Nick Mitchell 98 talk 03:52, 15 March 2016 (UTC)Reply



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presentable website

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This needs clarification. The ordinary meaning of the adjective is something like "of moderate quality" but it may here be being used in an irregular way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:597B:7400:2504:9F15:EBFD:FD6B (talk) 13:15, 27 March 2020 (UTC)Reply