Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jay Ongg

Stephen Wing-Fai Lee

Stefania Crisci

Wei W Wang

Phoi Heng Lew

Ankit Srivastava

Gareth Alun Jones

Li Xu

Radu Bacioiu

Darren Glenn Austin

Fanguang Kong

Salem Elie Haykal

Janine Michelle Perret

Rahee Ghosh

Guy Daher

Kiky Wibowo Tangerine

Yanir Shahak

Mun Ying Leong

Jorge Eugenio Aguirre Gonzalez

Freeform input is not native to several application or document types, but is desired by users as an input mode, especially for collaboration. Systems and methods are therefore provided to enable the insertion of an electronic collaboration workspace that accepts and stores freeform input for use as an object embeddable in various documents. An external host application provides the functionalities needed for freeform input, and the inputs may be committed to the document or stored as a separate document which may be referenced and accessed by multiple users for purposes of collaboration.

Web-based embeddable collaborative workspace

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that provide updates to localized software are provided. Resources are stored on a server device and may be cached or stored locally at a client device. Updates to the resources are made available at the server device. The updates include translations of the resources to several languages. The client device checks for an update of the resource and downloads the update for the server when the application is launched or downloaded by a computing device.

Cloud-based content localization

Embodiments of the present invention allow applications developers to change user experiences within an application without updating the application by relying on remote interface templates to create user experiences. The application code includes entry points to various remote interface templates stored on a remote device. The remote interface templates are consumed by the application to render content blocks that are all, or part of, the application's interface. The remote interface templates may be changed seamlessly at the remote device allowing the user to enjoy the updated interface without interruption the next time the application is opened.

Remote interface templates

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