Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Max S Lustig

Carlos G Perez

Arwa Zoher Tyebkhan

Jason Fergus Moore

Colton Brett Marshall

Gregory Powell Young

John Henry Miller

Reema Bhagat

Anne Catherine Feldman

Christopher Lomond

Randy B Wong

Providing user interaction guidance for services and associated applications may become more difficult as their variety and depth increases. Embodiments are directed to managing activation of and providing guidance on how to use a hosted service. For example, an initial configuration of a user interface (UI) of the hosted service that includes at least one element to highlight functionality may be provided for display. An initial action may be received from a user associated with the functionality, the initial action may be performed, and the UI may be updated to reflect the performed initial action. The initial action may be an activation action or upload action, for example. Additionally, a teaching UI element with a celebratory message to highlight the performed initial action and to provide additional information may be provided for display and rendered at a proximate position to a representation of the performed initial action.

Teaching and coaching user interface element with celebratory message

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

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Max S Lustig