Microsoft Vine News & Articles

Pretend for a minute that you’re not already up to your ears in social networks and take a look at a new offering from Microsoft (news, site). Aptly named Vine, the social tool is designed to connect strings of people for the specific purpose of passing along news.

But this ain’t no140 character good time. Fashioned as a sort of life-support system, Vine’s shtick is to connect users with the people and places they care about the most, when it matters the most: in times of crisis.