App Tour - Vine

Richard Hay, Senior Content Producer

May 13, 2016

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App Tour - Vine

 

Twitter bought the Vine video service back in 2012 for around $30 million dollars just before it was scheduled to publicly launch. Twitter wanted their own video sharing/creation service and the short six second videos fit well within the micro-blogging services 140 character tweets.

Although Windows Phone got its own version of the Vine app back in late 2013 there has not been any option on the Windows desktop.

Last week though, Vine Labs, released a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app for Vine that is for Windows 10 desktops and tablets and hopefully the release of the UWP version will result in a new app on Windows 10 Mobile as well. Currently the version of Vine on Windows mobile is the older Windows Phone 8 era version and dates back to late 2013.

This gallery will give you a walk through the desktop and tablet version of the new UWP app. One nice feature of the new app is that you do not need an account to browse through the videos plus you can upload videos through the new app for editing and publication on Vine as well.

Download the desktop Vine app from the Windows Store.

 

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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