Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Alvin Ji-Fung Lao

Darron Jack Stepanich

Vidyaraman Sankaranarayanan

Om Krishna

Roopesh Kumar Rajamani

Michael Anthony Navarro

Stéphane Morichère-Matte

Ronald Nikolai Bartlett Savas

Michael Andrew Griscom

Grace Lam

Sumanth Pasupuleti

Peter John Daoud

Gregory Iannacone

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for enhancing group collaboration in the context of productivity applications. In an implementation, a productivity application includes a user interface in which a document may be presented. In addition, a view of a groups feature provided by a social network service may be presented in the user interface to the productivity application. The view may include various options or interacting with the groups feature, such as the ability to create a new group, the ability to post comments to a group in the social network service, and the ability to upload documents to a group.

Productivity applications with views of social network group features

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Alvin Ji-Fung Lao