Microsoft is hoping to Sway a few more people with its new presentation tool. The company on Wednesday is taking the “preview” label off of Sway, the design and presentation app introduced last year.

At some point in your life, you’ve used PowerPoint. Whether for a class project or a meeting of some sort, you’ve click and dragged text boxes, dropped in photos, and awkwardly presented a slideshow.

It's been a while since Microsoft introduced a brand-new member to the Office family. So it's worth looking at how and why Microsoft made the design and development decisions that it did in devising ...