Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jeffrey Scott Petty

Gregory Carl Hitchcock

Colin Ray Anthony

Michael Tholfsen

Robert M McKaughan

Hanna Mclaughlin

Kevin Chad Larson

Ravi Gupta

Nithin Adapa

Aaron James Monson

Alexandre Pereira

Srinivas Chakravarthula

Pelle Haukali Nielsen

Sebastian Michael Greaves

Gabriel S Martinez

Martin A Mcclean

Valentin Dobre

Man Hei Julia Wong

Jason P Howard

Cindy Moline

Mark Frank Flores

Peter E Hammerqist

Mohammadreza Jooyandeh

Dominik Messinger

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

Electronic reading devices provide readers with text on a display, and enhancements to their functionality and efficiency are discussed herein. Text is provided to the reader in an enhanced contrast mode that highlights the active word and line of the text as well as words of interest in the text so as to improve the functionality of the electronic reading device itself as a provider of textual content.

Immersive electronic reading

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Jeffrey Scott Petty