Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael Anthony Navarro

Darron Jack Stepanich

Scott David Hoogerwerf

Vlad Riscutia

Vidyaraman Sankaranarayanan

Om Krishna

Roopesh Kumar Rajamani

Stéphane Morichère-Matte

Gregory Iannacone

Michael Andrew Griscom

Ronald Nikolai Bartlett Savas

Grace Lam

Sumanth Pasupuleti

Peter John Daoud

Alvin Ji-Fung Lao

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for enhancing group collaboration in the context of productivity applications. In an implementation, a productivity application includes a user interface in which a document may be presented. In addition, a view of a groups feature provided by a social network service may be presented in the user interface to the productivity application. The view may include various options or interacting with the groups feature, such as the ability to create a new group, the ability to post comments to a group in the social network service, and the ability to upload documents to a group.

Productivity applications with views of social network group features

Implementations disclosed herein provide a targeted messaging service that interfaces with a targeted messaging client on a device. The targeted messaging service provides a user-specific package to the client that specifies which native controls to invoke in response to which triggering events, as well as the assets to deploy in the controls. The targeted messaging client, which runs in the context of the native application it is supporting, receives the package from the service and monitors for the events that trigger targeted messages. A targeted control is formed by an existing native control combined with a specific asset provided in the package. When a given event occurs, the targeted messaging client merges the asset with the native control and displays the resulting targeted control in a user interface to the application.

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Michael Anthony Navarro