Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jason F Morrill

Christopher D Edwards

Keri Talbot

Mark E Pearson

L Tucker Hatfield

Jeffrey C Dunn

Joshua Adam Meisels

Josef Larsson

Daniel Albert Swett

Renee Yang

Gail Giacobbe

Hai Liu

Andrew Grey Carlson

Jie Li

Brian T Hill

Kathleen R Thompson

Jonathan Fred Kern

Monica Estela Gonzalez Veron

Jimmy Y Sun

Timothy Paul McConnell

Seung Wook Son

John Spencer Pruitt

Hoe Jin Kim

David Charles Wadsworth

Shawn Allan Michael Lipstein

Soo Youn Cho

William Charles Kennedy

Samuel Chung

Shayne Martin Holmes

Document changes are sent within a body of an electronic message to reviewers that are collaborating on the document. The document may be any type of document to which changes/comments are made, such as word processing documents, spreadsheets, slides, and the like. A reviewer receiving the electronic message may accept/reject changes and/or make comments/modifications to the document changes that are contained within the electronic message. For example, a reviewer may edit the document changes that are included within the body of the electronic message to add a comment and/or make changes to the change. A reviewer may also have the option to accept/reject changes directly from within the electronic message. After making any changes, the reviewer replies to the electronic message and the changes that are included within the electronic message are applied to the document.

Making document changes by replying to electronic messages

Integrated workflow visualization and editing is provided using a visual graphic diagramming tool and a web application platform tool to create a workflow. A visual representation of a workflow is created using the visual graphic diagramming tool. A declarative markup language file representing the workflow is provided to a web application platform tool for further modification of the workflow. The workflow is opened in the web application platform tool and desired parameters in the workflow are set. Visualization data from the graphic diagramming tool and the set parameters are bundled in a single declarative markup language file formatted for reading by both the visual graphic diagramming tool and the web application platform tool to allow manipulations and parameterization of the workflow in both the visual graphic diagramming tool and the web application platform tool.

Integrated workflow visualization and editing

Concepts and technologies are described herein for touch interactions with a drawing application. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, user devices can obtain drawing data generated by a web-based drawing application and can display a drawing by rendering the data in one or more UIs. The user device can interpret touch gestures at a touch sensitive display used to present the UIs and can interpret the touch gestures as corresponding to one or more commands for modifying the UIs. According to various embodiments, the user device can interpret the touch gestures by determining if the touch gestures intersect an object in the drawing and other behavior associated with the touch gesture such as movement, subsequent touches, and whether or not an object intersected was selected when the touch gesture was commenced.

Touch interactions with a drawing application

Display screen with user interface

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

Display screen with graphical user interface

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Jason F Morrill