Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jason Fergus Moore

David George De Vorchik

Patrice Lynn Miner

Relja Ivanovic

Chris J Guzak

Richard Malcolm Banks

Timothy P McKee

Richard M Banks

Shaun A Kaasten

Kenneth Martin Tubbs

David Joel Sheldon

David Citron

Colin Ray Anthony

Justin Mann

Shaun Kaasten

Jennifer I Shen

Paul Alexander Gusmorino, Iii

Martijn Eldert Van Tilburg

Mohammed Samji

Nathaniel Harper Ballou

Sasanka Chalivendra

Mark R Ligameri

Cornelis K Van Dok

J Craig Hally

Michael G Sheldon

Giampiero M Sierra

Gareth Alan Howell

Lyon K F Wong

Zeke Book Odins-Lucas

Daniel W Crevier

Jonathan Alexander Bockelman

Jeffrey C Belt

Kenneth A Koch

Charles Cummins

Jenny T Lam

Yun Lin

Stephan Hoefnagels

Christopher Andrew Evans

Alan Andrew Urdan

Tyler Kien Beam

Anshul Rawat

John Michael Thornton

John E Brezak

Shishir P Pardikar

Navjot Virk

Walter R Smith

Brian Scott Aust

Brian D Wentz

David C Steere

Jack Allen Nichols

David R Parlin

Paul Cutsinger

Scott E Dart

Rodger William Benson

Ming Hong Zhu

Samuel Thomas Williams

Wilhelmina P Dietrich

Ojiakonobi Udezue

Kerem B Karatal

Leonard J Peterson

Bradley G Weed

Tatjana Fournier

Robin Counts

Becky Pezely

Sierra M Giampiero

Dave Citron

Balan Sethu Raman

Bryan T Starbuck

Judson Craig Hally

Marieke Iwema Watson

Carlos G Perez

David A Orbits

Eric R Flo

Ahsan Syed Kabir

Benjamin Betz

Sudarshan Anand Chitre

Douglas Ray Pearce

Paul A Elliott

James Brian Kurtz

Sarah Michelle Filman

Arwa Zoher Tyebkhan

Steven Kafka

David G DeVorchik

Lyon King-Fook Wong

Aidan N Low

Aby John

Donna B Andrews

Max S Lustig

Mark Kramer

Martin E Van Tilburg

Gandhimathi Vaithilingam

Jason Kahn

Gerald Paul Joyce

Weston Haught

Alex D Wade

Jeffrey M Saathoff

Cleve Littlefield

Davd G De Vorchik

Kim Manis

Jiamin Zhu

Functionality is described for creating objects that represent respective items provided in a store. The objects can be embedded in various hosts, such as network-accessible pages (e.g., web pages), network-accessible journals (e.g., blogs), messages (e.g., Emails), and so on. Consumers can activate the objects in the hosts to retrieve information associated with the corresponding items. According to one illustrative feature, the functionality provides a general interface for creating objects for different types of items stored in the store, including file items of various kinds (e.g., text files, image files, audio files, spreadsheet files, video files, etc.), list items, folder items, and so on. According to another illustrative feature, the functionality provides an interface for allowing users to customize various aspects of objects.

Embedding a representation of an item in a host

Collaborating on documents by e-mail may be streamlined into a unified process. In one example, a user creates a document in an online document service, and sends the document to collaborators by mailing a link to the document. The document may have permissions set so that the creator of the document, and any user on the e-mail distribution list, can read and edit the document. When a user receives the e-mail, that user may open and edit the document. Upon closing the editing application, the user may be presented with an appropriate interface to create a reply e-mail.

Streamlined collaboration on document

This disclosure generally relates to synchronizing a list of queries made against content hosted by a collaborative workspace environment, or against some other remote computing device, to a local computing device. The methods and system described herein enable a synchronization client associated with the local computing device to synchronize one or more queries (e.g., a most recently used file list on the collaborative workspace environment, a list of shared files on the collaborative workspace environment and the like), along with the content associated with the one or more queries, provided on the collaborative workspace environment to the local computing device.

Synchronizing virtualized file systems

Various aspects and attributes of a single-click list selection user interface are described herein. A user can toggle the list inclusion status of any item by single clicking on the item in a selection pane of the user interface. When the user single-clicks a storage container item, the selection pane navigates to and displays items in the selected storage container. In order to prevent inadvertent selections, the user interface may provide graphical feedback indicating the inclusion status of an item prior to the user single clicking that item, e.g., responsive to mouse hover over that item. The user interface may further include a list pane which displays all items presently included in the list, regardless of each item's original storage container.

Single action selection of data elements

This disclosure generally relates to synchronizing non-file content items from a collaborative workspace environment to a local computing device. Once the non-file content item has been synchronized to the local computing device, content or other data contained within the non-file content item may be accessed and edited. Once the edits are complete, the updated non-file content item may be provided back to the collaborative workspace environment. The changes may then be provided back to the original non-file content item such that it includes the most recent updates.

Synchronizing non-file content stored on a collaborative workspace environment

Automatic installation and/or activation selection for hosted services is provided. A set-up user interface for users to sign up and activate their membership with a hosted service may prompt an activation module to analyze a computing environment of a requesting user to determine if a client application associated with the hosted service is pre-installed or not. If the client application is pre-installed, the user may be provided a control such as a button to activate the client application and begin using the hosted service. If the client application is not pre-installed, the activation module may determine which version of the client application is proper for the computing environment (e.g., operating system, operating system version, device, and similar parameters) and where it can be downloaded from. The activation module may then present the user with a link to the location for downloading and optionally installing the client application automatically.

Automatic installation activation selection for hosted services

Techniques to share media files through messaging are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory may store a message application that when executed by the processor is operative to communicate a message and a message attachment comprising a media file at different time intervals using different transports. The message may have a link comprising a reference to a discoverable storage location for the media file. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to share media files through messaging

A relationship-based communications service system receives a communication from a source destined to a recipient. The recipient is capable of receiving the communication at a computing device. The communication service system determines a first relationship type based on a satisfied relationship condition between the source and the recipient. The communications service system sends a relationship-qualified version of the communication to the recipient based on the determined first relationship type. The relationship-qualified version of the communication of the determined first relationship type is annotated to present a different user interface behavior to the recipient at the computing device than a relationship-qualified version of the communication of a second relationship type.

Communications control for resource constrained devices

The management of tabs in browser applications may be at least partially automated. In a described implementation, a link present in browser content information may include a link property indicating that the new browser content information targeted by the link is to be opened in a new tab. A browser application can therefore automatically launch a new tab without a user request. In another described implementation, a new travelog created for a new tab may be initially populated with an historical entry that points to spawning browser content information and identifies the originating tab. When a user attempts to move backward from an initial page of the new tab, a browser application can therefore automatically redisplay the spawning browser content information at the originating tab.

Browser tab management

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for displaying images in a user's online page, such as to provide an engaging and interesting user experience. A subset of one or more images is identified from a set that comprises user accessible images. Images for the subset are identified selecting one or more images from the set of user accessible images that meet a desired user interest threshold. The subset of selected images is then loaded onto the user's online page, such as an online service landing page, in an arrangement (e.g., slide show) of the images.

Displaying images interesting to a user

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