Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Cindy Moline

Colin Ray Anthony

Ravi Gupta

Hanna Mclaughlin

Nithin Adapa

Srinivas Chakravarthula

Jeffrey Scott Petty

Gabriel S Martinez

Man Hei Julia Wong

Jason P Howard

Peter E Hammerqist

Martin A Mcclean

Various embodiments discussed herein are directed to improving existing technologies by enabling users to share content items directly from an operating system component, with little to no user interface input requirements at the underlying communications application. For instance, some embodiments receive an indication that a mouse pointer is hovering over an operating system taskbar icon and automatically produce a flyout window so that a user can share a currently opened application page to other users via a selection of a button within the flyout window. Such application page may be shared via a single selection at the flyout window or an additional 'are you sure' or confirmation step. In this way, excessive drilling, navigation, and other user input at the application is reduced and simplified, thereby improving the user experience, content sharing accuracy, and computer resource consumption, among other improvements.

Operating system facilitation of content sharing

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