App Tour: Microsoft IT Showcase Universal Windows Platform (UWP) App

Richard Hay, Senior Content Producer

December 22, 2016

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App Tour: Microsoft IT Showcase Universal Windows Platform (UWP) App

 

As I search for various resources to share with you here at IT Pro: Windows, one of my favorite places to look through is the Microsoft IT Showcase.

That repository of information is full of white papers and other articles that share how Microsoft, one of the largest IT organizations in the world, handles the deployment and usage of their myriad collection of technologies.

I learned today that there is an actual Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app that brings all of that great technical content to your own Windows 10 PC, tablet, and/or mobile devices.

"Stay current with the latest IT innovations! Microsoft IT Showcase presents an inside view of the Microsoft IT process for developing, deploying, and managing Microsoft solutions. IT Showcase Modern Universal app on your Windows PC or Tablets Or Phones provides easy access, comprehensive search, and new content alerts for IT Showcase articles and media offerings to read, view, save, or share."

The Microsoft IT Showcase UWP App can be downloaded from the Windows Store and has all kinds of great features:

  • Stay up to date with the latest IT Innovations

  • Windows 10 Universal and personalized Mobile and Cloud app, provides latest IT Showcase stories

  • Quickly find desired content using key word search with wide range of filters

  • View content details in various languages - powered by Microsoft Translator. Language lists available in content detail view

  • Share content over email, twitter, linkedin or facebook or save it to OneDrive for any time access

  • Read out content - listen to the entire content list by the click of a button

  • Access any content in offline mode - set 'Offline Access' On within any content to make it available offline

  • Favorite any of your preferred content by touch or click, via the favorite icon

  • Rate content to enable value added views, sort option also available to view top rated contents

  • Recommendations based on your preferences powered by Azure machine learning

  • Use Cortana for Windows 10 for quick access, using phrases such as “IT Showcase what’s new,” “IT Showcase favorites,” and so on.

The best part of the Microsoft IT Showcase UWP app, in my opinion, is the ability save content for offline viewing when you might be in a location with no connectivity but a lot of time to catch up on your reading.

This gallery will give you a peek at the desktop app but since it is UWP based you can expect a similar experience on a mobile device or smaller tablet running Windows 10.

 

About the Author

Richard Hay

Senior Content Producer, IT Pro Today (Informa Tech)

I served for 29 plus years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer in November 2011. My work background in the Navy was telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well with what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena.

My first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and WindowsObserver.com is the result of the work I have done on that site since 1995.

In January 2010 my community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when I received my first Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the Windows Operating System. Since then I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP each subsequent year since that initial award. I am also a member of the inaugural group of Windows Insider MVPs which began in 2016.

I previously hosted the Observed Tech PODCAST for 10 years and 317 episodes and now host a new podcast called Faith, Tech, and Space. 

I began contributing to Penton Technology websites in January 2015 and in April 2017 I was hired as the Senior Content Producer for Penton Technology which is now Informa Tech. In that role, I contribute to ITPro Today and cover operating systems, enterprise technology, and productivity.

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