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Re:Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft by jhchen on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @11:19PM (#8399276)
From a technical perspective a standard web page could be saved in single HTML file that can be opened offline (with all JS/CSS inlined and images base64 encoded and inclined)--so it can be as easy as double-clicking on a file (just an .html file instead of .ppt).

The average user probably lacks this knowledge though and wouldn't know to or try to double-click on an html file but it is technically feasible.

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Re:Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft by roel_v on Thursday October 02, 2014 @04:18AM (#8399826)
Microsoft had technology to do just this in 1999 (!). It was known as 'HTA' (Html Applications) but was ahead of its time - the rich DOM manipulation and CSS effects we have now didn't exist. HTA was discontinued years ago afaik, but in hindsight it was a peak at the future.
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Re:Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft by roel_v on Thursday October 02, 2014 @08:44AM (#8400490)
[can no longer edit but of course should have said 'peek' blush]
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